Glen : Memory Videos

"Memory Theme"

I decided to book out a camera

on the day that we didn't have class so that I could film my nephews doing what they normally do which is play around with a whole lot of nothing. the main reason why I wanted to film my nephews was because I hardly ever get to see them with school and church responsibilities that I have to abide by. 

When I started to edit the film I found it difficult trying to think of a way that the videos would form nicely together with a soundtrack. After I found a soundtrack that I could cut the film to I thought that I was set. Once I started cutting the film to the soundtrack everything seemed fine until I looked back and noticed that although the cuts were to the film it seemed to have been a bit too repetitive which eventually became boring to watch. After noticing that the film lacked the type of attention seeking that I wanted it to have I felt a bit discouraged so I ended up cutting the film short to about 30 seconds. Looking back at it I know I could've done better and taken a different route to creating the film in order to make it more interesting but those are just lessons learned from my first film as apart of this class.

With this film I wanted to use the poly fest 

clips that I had from the previous poly fest that just passed to help represent my culture and the history of a Taualuga. Most of the clips are my own but the interviews that are incorporated with the film is from another Taualuga video that my cousin is apart of and also has been interviewed for. I chose to give the film a black and white effect to make it seem like it was from the past which is why I added more contrast to the film as well. 

When I did this film I felt that I could've done it better once again because I know that what I have put into this film isn't up to the best of my ability. One thing that I could've done to make the film better in my eyes would be to interview people on my own instead of borrowing clips off of another film on youtube.