Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Video Essay Evaluation

Video Essay Evaluation.

My new wave video essay was constructed through an array of sequences from French new wave inspired films. By including these in my video it allowed the audience to physically see what the films were like and see the evidence I was analysing for themselves, this also allowed the viewer to derive meaning from the films based on their own interpretation. I felt that analysing and finding meaning behind the texts was a key theme surrounding a majority of the new wave texts that I have looked at for my contextual study.

I decided to use text on my video essay to separate the videos and music and still have the same atmosphere throughout the video. I liked how the text introduced each upcoming film which was about to be played and I think that by using text it allowed to keep the viewer interacted while watching the video essay.

Whilst assembling the footage together to create my video, I wanted to make sure that I kept the trademark French new wave style on going so the video linked together. I did this by adding sound which was classic and old fashioned as it linked to the era of the French new wave, 1950’s/1960’s. I made my video have a lot of long takes as that was a convention of the French new wave so the whole video explored the genre even with subtle shots I included.


Overall, I think I managed my time effectively and used the research I conducted to my full ability to be able to construct the video successfully. I felt as though the video explained the French new wave in detail but if I were to do the video again I would use a voice over within the video to be able to elaborate on the texts being shown more.

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