Reflection - June 4 and 5, 2010

Friday was the last lesson in class that we had to work on our music video and I was also the only group member present in the class. Initially, I was slightly concerned at the absence of all my group members but then I realised it was a really good opportunity for me to get as much done of the music video as possible without anyone arguing and telling me to stop and do other things.
Therefore, the lesson was very successful and I managed to get a lot of work done. I carried on with the storyline we had previously set out. I had trouble sometimes deciding which clip to go next in the sequence for it to make sense, but also to sound good with the music. To solve this, I wrote out another list with a short description of each different scene of footage in order and wrote down if I had a lot of footage of it, if the white person was in the scene, and if Harry was running or walking. Once I did that, it was a lot easier to bring the clips together because I could string the footage together in an order that built up the suspense of the story.
Over the two days, I learned how to change the color of clips. For example, I figured out how to make a clip go black and white, or green, blue, or red. I used this sometimes to make clips look like he was remembering them, rather than them actually happening.
I decided that I had to stay after school on Friday because I was no where near finished and it was due on Monday. I also decided that I needed to come into school on Saturday to get the music video completely finished.
After school and on Saturday, I continued to work on the music video. After working on the first minute and a half on it, I reached sort of a block and I didn't know what to put next, as I felt I had used all of the clips. While I didn't know what to do, Harry and I decided to work on the ending and then build up from there till the clips met. We found doing the ending relatively easy because it is very similar to the first 30 seconds of the music video. We just didn't want it to be exactly the same, so we changed the speed and the order of it slightly to make it look slightly different.
When it came back to filling the gap Harry had to leave and I was left to sort it out for myself. After watching through what I had of the music video so far with the help of Ms Wong, we decided that it needed a clearer political theme. I didn't have time to go filming, so I decided to do this by having him running away on the MTR, and the momentum of the MTR reminding him of all of the small hints of the poster and the white people before he realised. So I had flash backs within the flash back.
Although this editing process was really time consuming, I actually really enjoyed it and feel I have really improved from the last unit on oral history. It was nice doing something more creative for a change, rather than a documentary.
I still think my whole group needs to improve on time management though.
These past few days, I feel I was most like the IB Learner Profiles Thinker and Risk Taker. Because I was encountering many problems, and had to dive right into them and solve them without over thinking it.