Memento

Wednesday 10th February 2021

This is the film/video I made for this project. I realise now that I didn't include enough information about what I was doing, how it was going and how things led up to the finished product.

Recording the audio that comes up in the second half of the film was easy and smooth, it only took me two takes to get it. At first I was going to try to record things line by line from the script but I decided it would be easier to just record it all in one go and cut it up in production which proved simple and a good choice. I just spoke the lines of the 'script' which I had written on the same day that I filmed the footage for the video. Writing the script really helped me with direction when I was filming and gathering props and so I am grateful that I did that. The props were just random items from my house since I never leave my house, the items didn't have no meaning at all but they weren't as symbolical as I made them out to be in the video. The script was basically real but it was a hyperbolised version of the truth since I don't really think too deeply about this kind of stuff. The storyboard also helped and I would say it helped more than the script for angles. I had so many seemingly random angles filmed and I am grateful that I thought to do that, I think it add more depth to the story, you can say there is a meaning behind it but I don't want to explain it but instead leave it up to to the viewer to take what they want.

Recording the audio for the first half wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The more I spoke the less it hurt to keep trying. It took around 7 different tries to get both the potential recordings. I looked through the poems that I had previously chosen to choose from(I think I talked about them previously) and decided on two that I really liked and that I thought really suited the video and message. In the end I chose one over the other because I thought it suited the message more. The poems are great and I want to give credit to the creator of the one I ended up using.

The poem Memento by 'anhn' January 2019 (https://hellopoetry.com/words/memento/) .

The music that I used were just the ones that I had already downloaded from Youtube Audio Library while I was looking for some for the last project. I am not sure whether they fully suit them and I think I didn't cut them properly so it flowed better but it isn't too bad.

The version I uploaded here is the medium bitrate version because I didn't think that Wix would allow me to upload the the higher bitrate version (which I have put on my OneDrive) so that's that.