Home Videoing #2

(LATE POST)

As I had experimented with the personal factor of moving house and the changes this had inflicted on my family I took it upon myself to document this whilst home for a few days. I did this as I wasn't sure whether I wanted to change my idea and the direction of my work, After doing this I very much preferred the work I had originally began to create, I don't feel this work is a waste of time in any way as it gave me the opportunity to experiment with film and a form of documentary work which is personal to me and may wish to carry on privately. In order for me to be able to upload this video I had to put it onto YouTube which I didn't really want to do as it's quite a private matter, but for some reason I wasn't able to do it any other way.

This was supposed to be a piece of work which consisted of a series of Videos with image inserts of my house changing and perhaps the distance between certain family members and myself, I didn't feel I was ready to create this work yet and It isn't something I want to have as public information, it is for that reason I will not follow it through for my narrative unit. However this did give me an opportunity to play around with different means of presentation and ways of recording a narrative which for me I think made me realise also that making a film using a film camera isn't something I'm quite ready for yet and hopefully will learn over the summer as I want to have experience in this too.

This is the first of many videos I took whilst being at home, this one is just of me explaining what I will be doing for the next few days and going into small detail of what happened and why I'm doing what I am. I did find the microphone on my camera doesn't work very well at picking up sound so if this is something I want to try again I will use some sound recording equipment to up the quality.
It took me quite a lot of courage to be able to do this as what happened hit the family quite hard, I was really annoyed about uploading this video as I wasn't able to actually upload it without first up loading it to YouTube which I really didn't want to do soooo after the review this will 100% be coming down!

In reflection of doing these videos I feel they've worked well in creating a documentation of how I felt during a certain time in my life, it is something very personal to me and the work I could create from this would work well as a narrative, however this isn't something I want to be publicly known as I have said before it is something private which I would like to carry on in my own time, I have taken many videos from my last trip to my childhood some but it does take about 3 hours to upload to YouTube and is very time consuming for what I'm doing and as this isn't something I want to pursue for this unit it doesn't seem worth it to upload like 30 videos of me moaning about my feelings.

However despite this, this has given me the opportunity to play around with filming and experiment with change through out my work as well as using videoing as a different medium to taking photographs, my aim is to combine both video and film which is something again would have fitted well but it not what I will do right now.