Living frame by frame video and evaluation

An evaluation of my short film

I feel that i should have taken more pictures. Every segment of this short film felt jerky and slow in comparison to other photomation films i have seen that played at 60 photographs per second. I don't feel i need to reach that standard but i still should have taken more to make the film smoother.

I also feel that much of the picture quality was poor or unfocused, particularly in the segment with the writing on paper. These shots were poor because i didn't have a steady hand with the camera in my phone so perhaps a tripod and better camera might have aided this problem.

In terms of the actual content i feel the piece is fine, simplistic and amateur in many ways but easy to watch nonetheless.

I feel that the music I implemented is spot on fitting the atmosphere and theme completely and making the piece much better. However i also feel that my editing of this music and the other sound effects was poor. The overall sound in the film was too loud and the cutting of the music to fit the film was substandard. The sound effects were ok though not the focus of the piece at all.

Next time i will have to  work harder to make my work as good as it can be.

Behind the scenes

I originally wanted to do three scenes instead of the two i ended up with in this short film. The rejected scene was going to have me slowly being engulfed by books but i realised i didn't have enough paperback to create the effect i wanted. I had planned to be swimming in a sea of books, but i think that's better left for fiction.

I had many ideas for the short film which didn't come into reality, here are a few of them:

My Interests:

Video games

Books

Meditation

Films

Book fluttering past, poetry, animated words , first person filming, third person filming, animation through slowly building a picture, timelapse of meditation or gaming or reading, dominos with film cases and game cases?

Life in my room

Room slowly being covered in books, me buried in books. Me dancing though that's embarrassing, me writing - timelapse or perhaps an animation, reading in a variety of positions in my room

Sound design

Ambient dance music or instrumental - perhaps Eple from Royschop?

Sound effects - the rustle of book pages and the sound of the sea? Me moving around - footsteps

In the animation of the first scene - me reading books playing games ect - my mother had to film me and since she didn't have alot of time and sadly wasn't very skilled with a camera so she didn't take enough pictures for parts of the animation to be more fluid.

Mixing the audio for the film was hard, the sound effects were easy enough to implement on their own but making it quiet enough when combined with the music was pretty difficult. Furthermore when i added the actual music to the piece i had to edit it thoroughly because while the animation was one minute long the music was four. As a result i had to cut large parts of the music track and edit the cut music to reduce the jarring effect.