Stage 2 Part 2 Evaluation

The evaluation is supposed to be a formal piece of writing evaluating the work produced during the project, I think I got carried away while writing and will try to make sure to do things properly next time. I should have probably also been more specific but new surroundings call for different approaches. Well anyway, here it is:

To say my film was a sum up of what I understood to be 'Altered States' would be very incorrect. I think along the way, I got confused and distracted by my peculiar vision and the final project ended up separate and not making too much sense to the outsider. I fully understand what my film is about and how it got to where it is and what message it puts forward, however I did not understand that others did not get it and were confused as to what was going on until I was told so by someone who had watched my work. I am by no means talented in film making or have a good skill in it, however I think that this on showed a piece of who I am in it. It mixed up a lot of things I like and am fascinated by and mashed together in this altogether terrible film. I had wanted to show people how their minds and state of beings could be altered without them having any knowledge of it, but I believe my film failed to get that message across, it was too unclear and had many unnecessary parts in it.

The audio was really meant to be the main source of this and the visual aspects (the messages, the frame movements) was all really for show and I was pretty sure wouldn't really have an impact because it wasn't done properly (and I wasn't sure how to do it) or was added for no real affect. I tried too many thigs at once and it all collided to make a big mess.

The storyboarding was quite fun and helped me initially get my idea into a visual form, but I deviated from it by what I would say is quite a bit. Maybe next time I should make it more concise and stick to the plan. I used props that I had on hand so it wasn't as grand as I had originally imagined it to be-I had initially planned to use green screening-but I made do, and it turned out okay in that aspect. I would say that I should maybe be less ambitious with my ideas and think more realistically as to what I can produce.

I don't think the project really did anything for me creatively, except to make my ideas somewhat into reality, which was fun, but it didn't enhance my thinking, probably because I may have gone about the project the wrong way and maybe I didn't do what I was supposed to. That could be the case, or it could be that I don't think that way or I can't think that way. I evidenced my work and thought processes digitally as best as I could. Although it is different or less detailed than before, I believe that it is no less valuable and has been done finely.

I like to pretend that this project didn't change the way I think but it did. It allowed me to experiment with things that I hadn't previously looked at and allowed me to work more with audio effects which was good as I wasn't just doing the same things. I edited things differently than usual and filmed things in ways I hadn't before, it was very interesting. Truthfully, I don't have a vision but trying to work through the various aims and complete the project is also very interesting to me.