Evaluation

I have created my first experimental video. I have planned it, created it and exhibited it to the best of my ability. A lot of things went to plan, and a lot of things didn’t. For example, the editing, I believe, was faultless. But the final outcome was a bit of failure as the idea of the video was not successfully portrayed in the way that I had hoped. The idea of my video was to show a man walking up a set of stairs over and over again, the stairs was supposed to represent a problem, job or obstacle for the man to overcome. But he would keep reappearing at the bottom; this would represent the difficulty of the problem, with the fact that he has to keep on trying again and again. And then finally after persevering for a long time he finally achieves his goal by reaching the top of the stairs.

The idea behind my video was constantly missed which would suggest that it wasn’t projected properly. However there was one response that seemed to suit the video more than mine, this was that my video was based on the monotony of life, and was also commented that it would be suitable to be shown within an art gallery.

To improve my video I think that I should have made the person who was walking in my video to appear to get a lot more tired as he keeps walking to suggest that he isn’t even going back in time. He is in fact supposed to be transported back every time so that he has to keep on trying. And with his perseverance achieves his goal, which was the intended interpretation.

One comment that was constantly appearing in the feedback questionnaires was that it was boring. One way I could have changed this is to make this slightly more intriguing, possibly by making the man run up the stairs to start with and then towards the end have the man climbing up the stairs on his hands and knees to show how much of a challenge this really is.

All in all, I still think that the video was a success even though there were some inconvenient responses to it. I still believe that the video turned out well. And people still can relate to it even though it may be a different relation than the one intended.