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Critical Selfie
Observation: People leave things behind.
Critique/ Perspective: A person's character can be demonstrated through the belongings the leave behind.
Theory: People should pay closer attention to the things others leave behind as they tell a story of that person's character.
Development throughout Critical Selfie
At the beginning of this project, I took inspiration from one of the ideas given in project one which was, "Design is an excuse to make more useless junk". I found this interesting as today, in a society that consumes mass produced products, we have become very wasteful.
While taking on the flaneur persona, I began to notice the details of peoples waste, or the things people leave behind. It became evident that a person personality came through the objects that were left behind.
In The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish, Hawkins pointed out how people's waste can demonstrates a person's character by their habits and daily activity.
While at the begging of this project, I took photographs of anything that people left behind; When selecting my final photos I decided to focus on object that were either deliberately left behind or had been forgotten about or lost. While this is slightly different from Hawkins idea of the relationship between people and their waste, I think these objects still tell a story about the person who left them behind.
Gay Hawkins. (2006). The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
This is my final video.
This clip is the first edited I did. It can be seen that the footage I filmed in ergo lab doesn't fit with the rest of the video. So I will reshoot these scenes in the old house.
Credits
Music "Private Reflection" Kevin MacLeod" Incompetech.com Incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=private+reflection&Search=Search
"Wind on Door short" Benboncan Freesound.org freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/84111/
"Water Drop-01" Kijjaz Freesound.org freesound.org/people/kijjaz/sounds/16746/
After speaking to the tutors today they said the only thing that need improving was my zooming in. This is because the camera is quite shaky. I couldn't help but laugh because I knew this was true but I didn't know how to fix it. Thankfully, Szilard and Ele showed me how I can fix this in after effects. By altering the time stretch, the footage becomes less jolty. I have fixed this problem with the house scene, the rose scene, and the scene with the girl on the road.
In order to create a certain mood, I altered the colour correction of each clip. I feel that this new colour gives the clip an eerie feel to it. The footage looks much better with the colour correction.
Originally I shot the footage of the rose, the chess board and the ink in the ergo lab. But after editing it together the colour difference between the shots from the ergo lab and the other shots looked really bizarre together. So I went home again and reshot these scenes at the old house. I feel that these scenes look a lot better now.
