Final Statement

At the beginning of this project I had absolutely no idea what to do. So far this year I had based all of my projects on photographs. Even during micro project 4, where we had to take videos that contained different sounds, in my final production of the project I extracted the sound from these videos and placed them into a still image of Park-Stradley. So for this project I decided early on that I wanted my final presentation to an actual video.  I decided then to partner up with one of my class mates John Silvestre, who lives right down the hall. After watching some videos on YouTube John had the idea to film things and then play them in reverse. I liked the idea of reversing the clips but I felt that there needed to be something that would make it unique but I couldn’t figure out what.

Without fully committing to a theme for our videos we started filming. One of the first clips we made was John catching a football. It was at this point that I brought up the idea of doing everything in reverse, but then playing it backwards so that everything looked (somewhat) normal. This way when people saw the video they wouldn’t thing anything of it. After this John and I started to come up with ideas of things that we normally do together such as, programming and Engineering homework, and walking to class. However, none of these events really had much to do with each other other than the fact that we did these things together.  

To be honest I was disappointed with the way this project turned out. I think that we were too specific when we were figuring out what we wanted to do for this project and didn’t leave space enough creativity or fortunate accidents. Furthermore, some of the videos I feel turned out really well but some of them were convincing. I think that we were trying too hard to increase this videos run time, and included clips that weren’t ready to be added. However, one think I did like about this project is that sort of shows the symmetry or cycle of my time here at college. The videos that stand out to me the most are the elevator chip, and the clip of the engineering project. Honestly I could not tell you how many times I’ve put together and taken apart that AEV. It seems like that’s all I’ve done this semester in engineering. Five years from now when I look back on that class I guarantee that all I remember is building and destroying that stupid thing. As for walking to the elevator, that is the one path I take that never changes. Once I’m out of that elevator and on the first floor I could go anywhere: left, right, to class, out to eat, or even to party. But that walk to the elevator has never changed.