I found many things wrong with this video that made me
uninterested and bored. The biggest mistake made was the pictures. The author
had 3 pictures of herself, 2 of a medical bed and 2 of a hallway. They were not
specific, not interesting and spent 25-30 seconds on the same picture. Some
pictures zoomed closely, but some were just still with no animation. The
pictures were not connected with the specific story, I felt like she just
pulled them from the internet. The fact that each picture was shown for 30
seconds made the 3 minute video seem like 10.
She spoke very slow and monotonous which made me uninterested just due
to the fact that she sounded uninterested herself! She used strong works such
as ‘crazy’ and ‘intense’ in the same tone as every other word, which drained
the meaning from the word. This video showed me how awful it is to watch a
video with a monotonous voice, boring pictures, and no excitement what so ever.
I will make sure my hardest that our video does not turn out as this one did.
Because I'm technologically challenged and can't figure this out I am going to post on yours just so my response is up here... i'm sorry!
ReplyDeleteThroughout the entire life story, the narrator’s artwork was presented. I think the progression of the artwork, from one picture to another and another to reversing the order to come back to a happier ending was very effective in portraying the narrator’s journey spoken of in the video “Footsteps.” Examining the artwork, the viewer can see that in the beginning, the art is very dull, dark, and scary, much like her journey. As the story progresses, the viewer sees the instant in which the narrator’s journey makes an instant turnaround—a loved one’s discovery of her self harm. With the passing of that bright red picture, the artwork seems to show the journey coming to a happier place, with more colors and happier images. In the end, the picture of the moon, the one thing she holds to as a constant, fades as she sings what the viewer can easily conclude is a lullaby that once got her through rough nights.
In my choreography one class, I am learning about motifs and how they affect the story. In this video, it was clear to me that the motif throughout the story was “She/He never listened to me.” During the first half of the story, the narrator kept saying that the people involved in her life never listened, they never listened. But as the story progressed, the motif began to change, having a major affect on the story as a whole. The people that never listened faded and the focus changed to the people who did listen. The change in the motif displayed the powerful change in the narrator’s journey. Needless to say, I was more than fond of the motif.
Overall, this video gives me hope that we are going to be able to successfully display Mrs. Dot’s art in such a way that we can affect the audience that watches her life story. I am also hopeful that we can be the people that listen to her the way that she was once the person that always listened to people like the narrator of “Footsteps.”
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In the video, “The Sun Also Rises” narrated by Eva Heymann, I found myself getting completely lost in the way Heymann was describing the scenes. In the caption of the video it states that Eva has always enjoyed the ability to express herself in words, which one can easily conclude by the way she so elegantly speaks. But with the diagnosis of dementia, Heymann has to face the fear of losing her beautiful talent. That fear of losing what she once had, though, produces amazing work that is shown in this video.
While the images in the video were, honestly, quite awful and the background music, although great for doing ballet to, quite terrible as well, the analogies and ideas Heymann presented in the video were enough to have one’s mouse no where near the exit button. The motif in this video, the sunset and sunrise, was so contrasting. Heymann found hope in that contrast, though, saying “There is so much more to death than what meets the eye, just as light can penetrate darkness.”
This video was the essence of hope in a gloomy situation. I do believe the aesthetic means of the video could be improved a great deal, the idea, the motif, the speaker, and the language was superior. I hope that however our group presents Mrs. Dot’s life story it comes somewhere close to this gorgeous writing and narrating.
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