Given another chance, I would definitely have begun storyboarding my project first. After the audio was completed, incorporating video turned what I'd originally "envisioned" into something vastly different - and knowing beforehand that I would have been given the chance to add video, I'd have shot a few scenes of the audio with Jess talking - adding a level of intimacy to it. Furthermore, I would have asked different questions knowing that I can compliment those answers with fresh video that I can tailor to whatever Jess described. In my clip, I felt limited to being able to shoot only what might abstractly represent things Jess did in Paris, but if I had known about video, I would have tailored my questions to something different - maybe to more things that happened indoors.
Having immersed myself into this project now gives me a more analytical approach to appreciating everything that is portrayed on screen - from the multiple angles in a shot, to the myriad of audio clips including sound effects, music, dialogue, etc, to the actual melding of both a/v in the editing room. I've also learned just how critically important storyboarding is, and how easily hours of shooting can be deleted for the sake of editing a "better" finished product. Also- having contributed 9-10 painstaking hours to create just 4 mere minutes of this project, I can definitely give more credit to everybody involved, the directors, actors, camera/sound crew and the editors that have the patience and talent to make entire movies!
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