Studio Brief 4 Video

I decided to do a video and play to my strength and passions which seemed fitting to wrap the year up with. Using the bottle as a prop it seemed only natural to use the notches / scale on the side of the bottle so I chose to focus on how much I'd drink for certain things. I started filming shots that were just seconds long, showing me topping up the bottle each time with the same amount of 'vodka' I would normally use per drink. I aim to then get Will to say his poem over the top and strip the audio from the clips. He decided then to change him poem so it was more in keeping with the context, less conceptual and less ambiguous. The poem also uses numbers, in this case dates as some kind of scale which is fitting with the measurement theme.

One night, two nights, 3 nights more,

Five freights from the first night, submissions at your door.

Drunk 6th n 7th an it weren't even eight, 9 more minutes but its 10 & you're late.

1 all nighter fits in front of your fail,

10 mark pen picks apart your plan,

1 more month & it's already Jan

It turned out I was the one reading the poem through shyness of the poet.. but I feel it turned out well still and I was playing around with editing my voice but felt it sounded more real and fitting with an honest feel to the overall video, with minimal alterations. I had originally applied some heavy varying alterations however when played alongside the other clips' audio (which I had reduced) feedback came back that it was too much and without these edits it sounded clearer, like a voice of reason.



I proceeded to speed up the video clips I had, so that it fit around the length of the audio, and recorded the audio a few times altering it to the length of the clips and so forth, until I feel it blended well. Also by speeding up the clips it gives you a clearer image of the bottle emptying, without it being too fast that its a blur, and not too slow that it's just a constant string of the water slowly splashing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWvLNbHylo

Feedback:
Could've made the clips shorter and more abstract
The poem is ambiguous and mysterious, the clips could've reflected this somehow but it's quite obvious using effects on the video
The voice works really well alongside the clips
Really interesting concept
Could use different coloured drinks

I'm really happy with the outcome, especially considering my initial idea was so different and I had to adapt my idea constantly due to mishaps. Considering the feedback, I'm glad I didn't use different coloured drinks as this would've looked inconsistent and I wanted the bottle and liquid to remian the same so as not to be a further distraction from the ever changing background. If I'd have more time it would've been nice to experiment further with locations, possibly highlighting lengths some students go to to get drunk, and weirder places they do so. I'm glad in the end I used my own voice despite being intially nervous about doing so, feedback proved it worked well.