Out With The Old

As the year comes to an end, as does my work. Hence with that I have finished my personal project...the title:
Out With The Old
As stated before my idea was to do a piece around how we as humans have become so obsessed and dependent on technology. Over time I created this character called Jeffry. My idea became a story of his life, a classic slob who is crazy about getting the next big thing. He gets a new laptop, and falls in love with it..finally taking this love to far and getting caught.

Here is what I produced:



I used a lot of common devices to convey love and lust such as the cloudy effect and I used humor to make the piece enjoyable. I also made the music myself. I wanted a continuous track that changed with the story so I wrote the music to the edit of the film and then added a few extra string, piano and bass sounds on Garage Band.
In hindsight would have liked to have spent more time on this project. I could have produced something far more professional that what i have, in spite of this i am happy with the outcome. I feel it reflects the message i wanted it to and seems to be an enjoyable piece.

The ACM Gospel Choir

So after months of hard work we have finally finished editing the ACM gospel choir documentary...and due to some highly unforeseen circumstances it is now known as simply:
'The ACM Gospel Choir: The Man Behind The Music'
The process of filming went well, we got around three hours of footage for the editing stage and most of it was very relevant to the piece. On a trip up to a gig in Manchester I managed to get interviews with many choir members as well as footage of the choir rehearsing and chilling on the journey. All this was planned to help back up our narrative and add a lot of depth to the story.
However, not all goes as planned, and after waiting for weeks for the log and capturing process to work propperly we had finally managed to get it on to our machine only to find that the following day it had been deleted! Not only this but the tape with it all on had gone missing. We were at a lose end, we had lost more than half of the story and the cut-aways.
So our solution was simple, to use the footage of Marks De Lisser's interview (the choir leader) and make it a story of his journey. How the choir had come to be and where would it go.

And so we got the editing finished and here is the finished product:

ACM: The Man Behind The Music from Kirsty F on Vimeo.

There are a few things I would change if i were to go back and do this project again. Number one i would have chosen a much smaller project to do. The choir is a group of 29 individuals, each with their own agenda. Not just that, they are over 2 hours drive away and are very busy. It was a great idea but was a little out of the league for a student in the first year. Secondly I would have assigned specific jobs to each individual in the group. We reached a stage of working together where we either didnt know what to do or we wanted to do the same jobs. This made tensions grow between us, ever for students who are close friends. This made our work suffer.
All things concidered however i am very happy with the out come and would love to work with Kirsty and Mike again.