Evaluation

My evaluation of the video on a whole was that I thought I could have made it look a lot more professional. The video did have a good meaning but it only appealed to people who skateboarded. For example, if I showed my video to people who did not skateboard then I fell like I would have to explain what the meaning of the video was rather than a skater just automatically knowing the meaning. I would like to make a video that would appeal to a lot more people.


I feel like my video was not filmed very well, on a lot of the clips the filming was very jerky! I feel like I could have had a bit more equipment to film better like a tripod etc. i think i could have effected the sounds on the clips in the background a lot more due to the fact that some of the sounds were louder than the others. i personally enjoyed it myself but i think that if i showed the video to other people who are not interested in skateboarding it would not appeal to them and they would not like it.


The people i showed the video to said that they enjoyed it but that was only because they are into skateboarding and they are thinking the same thing i was when i made the video. The exhibition could have been made better and it could have been planned out a lot better. Also the DVD player was very hard to see due to the limited light at the place i held the exhibition this could have easily been sorted out by going to a little spot down the road or maybe even a different spot with more light showing the no skateboarding sign and also showing the DVD player aswell. I also think that the exhibition could have been better by having more people to watch it, this could have made the exhibition questions alot more variable.

I think that if i made questions on work sheets rather than asking the questions to the people it would have brought a lot more honesty and not felt like they were being put on the spot when the camera was put in their face.

All in all though i thought my experimental video and exhibition went well due to the fact that i enjoyed doing it, i enjoyed the movie itself and the people at the exhibition thought it was good and enjoyed it.

Production and Post Production Diary

The way i thought of my video was by thinking of something to do with an interest but not make it completely on the lines of that interest. For example i chose to do my video on certain things that are stopping skateboarding rather than it being completely based on skateboarding. I also wanted to make the video emotional due to my passion for skateboarding and why it is trying to be stopped rather than built into a bigger scene. This made me want to base my video on the absence of skateboarding in places that have been skate stopped. I then thought of every skate stopped spot that used to be skateable and decided to use them in my video. Once i knew what i was going to film and where i thought of the camera i was going to use. So rather than using a camera the college was going to give me i decided that i could use my friends camera which is better quality. I then when to all the spots that used to be skatable andf filmed them in a way to show how the tricks would be filmed. This would make it easier for me to put the sound of the tricks into the video.

Exhibition/ Installation Plan

Time: Anytime it is dry.

Date: Anytime it is dry between the dates of the 6th of December to the 11th.

Location: At a no skateboarding spot.

The way it should look is 2/3 people standing around a mini DVD player watching my video. i will then be asking the people who watched the video questions to do with the videoand they will be answering them whilst i am filming. i will be also filming the place i am going to film the exhibition and i will also be filming the people watching it.