Resolution 1, PRE-VISUAL Experimentation

After completing a lot of research to try and help me develop my piece and make it much more emotional evoking using haptic theories and montage theories etc but the next step was to try and piece something together. It seemed a lot more effective to use my time in editing the pre-vis but using archive footage off the internet because even though the visuals don't match up exactly to what I want as can been seen on my storyboard it would still help me gain a sense for how my final piece would feel and look so that I can see what changes can be made to develop it and make it better. Here are some screen shots of me using Premier Pro to edit this archived footage into a pre-vis cut:

I pieced together the visuals I downloaded off the internet in an order that roughly followed my storyboard.

I then added effects to a lot of my links like mirroring to demonstrate how I wanted to heavily manipulate them. I also played with timing of each clip as well as slow motion and fast motion shots are key too.

This was my final timeline of imagery which I then added a music track to by False Idols which is a band my brother is part of. This will be the style of music that will be made for the piece but at the moment this old track of his helps give the piece the feel I intended.

Here is the Pre-Vis Experiment now finished:

From my Pre-Vis I have figured out that some of the images work really well together while others seem a bit too random or misleading. I feel like as much as it was emotive I even felt especially when showing it to people for feedback that it was less emotive because it didn't seem too personal. Part of this is because the visuals aren't my own original material but also I feel like it is because the lack of my self identity is disconcerting. I was looking into empathy and point of view filming etc and this did start to make me worry that potentially my piece could be missing depth by missing my self identity and representation. I thought it would be more relatable to a general audience if I left it quite ominous and lacking an identity but now I realise that it is kind of the opposite because people relate to people because we see people all day everyday and we are all humans. Also after exploring the internet I realised when you are made to see a person portraying emotions in a video you do start to absorb these emotion and feel them too. This has led me to another epiphany with my piece which is that maybe I do need a person in it and maybe that person needs to be myself or someone repressing me. I really loved the dance project last year so was thinking maybe I could use a slight bit of gestural movement and some interpretive dance filmed in a close up way like the rest of my piece which could express my feelings towards the situation as strongly as I achieved before and make it more relatable. Also even if it isn't my body that performs these moves/dance I will actually use my face within it in the water shots as I would like to add this slightly more clear personal touch as it is a very personal story to me. I feel this pre-vis experiment has re-ignited my passion for this project especially one of the first I have done that is so personal and I am glad I have taken a step forward to try and really express the depth and feelings I want it to have and portray.