Final Post

For this project, this is my final post now that all four videos are complete and the hand-in date is soon. I have already given analysis of each video and what I feel works or doesn't, on the post where I've put each final one and so this is an evaluation of the project as a whole.

Overall, I'm very happy with how the project has turned out. It's been good to try something different and to experiment some more with video which has always taken a backseat to photography. I had fun putting the project together and it's a personal one to me as I go undertake journeys a lot and editing the footage or the photographs reminded me of journeys, or of events that happened on them or once I'd reached the destination.

Since I started the project way back last year, it has changed a lot and the idea has pretty much done a turn from being all about stills to wanting to make a video, to ending up with four shorter videos that form more of a collection. As a collection I am happy with them, but I do prefer three of them whereas as 'Time' isn't my favourite. Ultimately, I couldn't get it to do what I wanted and on the whole found it frustrating. It just isn't as powerful and doesn't achieve its purpose as much.

The only problem I picked up with any of them is that the aspect ratio in 'Time' changes as I used clips from two different cameras that had different sizes. I hadn't thought about this until I came to edit and forgot it would be a problem. It doesn't ruin the video as per say, but it is noticeable. However, it was too late to reshoot footage and I wanted those specific clips so I'm coping with it.

Overall, I'm very happy with how things have turned out. If this was a longer project I'd try and do more road trips to collect more footage to give a different look, but it's still gone well and I do have a variety.