This is a short Video Art piece that was made on my film course about a year ago. It depicts my journey from home to the University through a collection of stills.
Everything in the film from the footage to the editing to the sound design was created on a phone in one journey. The idea for this is to show how the phone can be a more realistic device for documenting video on than anything else due to the fact it is always with you.
A Filmmakers best tool is the one he has with him.
In my mind its strengths of this piece lie in the story it tells about the technology used to capture it and the ever changing formats that can be used to create and distribute moving image instead of the actual content that it has in. Although the images themselves are nicely composed and there is a nice pace to the piece i’m not 100% happy with the final outcome, there are places in it that the sounds feel to raw like it has just been plucked from the air and stuck in, another thing i’m not pleased with is the images that go along with the footsteps, abstract though they are i feel that compared to the other images they are too abstract or the other images aren’t abstract enough, there seems to be a divide between them. The images not being as abstract as i would of first liked also distracts from the story the sound is trying to tell instead relies of the images to tell the story.
