Final Version of Time

This is the video that I struggled with the most. I had an idea of what I wanted it to look and sound like in my head, but no matter how many edits I tried, I couldn't get it exactly right and I think tried too hard. By the time I got to this version I had five completed edits that I thought were rubbish and three unfinished ones that just totally lost their way halfway through.

Considering the original idea was to keep all four of them around 40 seconds, I've not managed it on any of them and this one turned out to be the longest. However, to achieve what I wanted it would have been near impossible to cut it to a shorter length.

I found this one the most challenging to make because I needed it to be independant and different from the other three but time on a journey is sometimes awkward to illustrate unless the viewer has had that experience. To try and demonstrate the point that how fast the journey goes changes, as does how much you notice and the repition of ultimately repeating actions or getting that deja vu feeling that you've seen that before or driven around that roundabout before were important. I also wanted to try and use footage that hasn't appeared in any of the other videos.

Thinking of what to do with sound was again, an awkward one. I think one of the issues is that when I was filming, I didn't think about sound as much as I should have and originally, I planned to use a lot more of the conversation that went on during the journeys. However, once I sat down and went through the footage, I decided that I didn't really want to use the conversation as it almost made it too personal and quite a lot of it was talking about personal or family issues or football and I didn't feel it interesting or relevant enough.

Something I added in to try and keep that flicking feel as you realise a lot of time has passed (sometimes so much that you're on an entirely different road) was to use fade in, fade outs as transitions between certain clips. I also took advantage of the speed of clips, starting off slowly as the car left a starting point (in this case a service station) and gradually getting faster and then changing a couple more times in rhythm until the slow, frustrating traffic jam in the evening after an already long journey.

While I don't hate this video, I don't feel it gets its point across anywhere near as well as the previous three and it was generally frustrating because even though I left it several times and came back to it, it didn't help.

For now, unless I suddenly gain inspiration or vision of things to improve it, it will be my final piece, meaning I now have four videos that explore four different themes of my original theme:- journeys/road trips.