Project 1 Reflection

I actually really enjoyed making this introductory project for class. Once I started to mind map and storyboard my ideas, then came the technical difficulties of realizing how I was going to piece together the visuals with the mechanics of Premiere. I knew that I wanted to overlap, or juxtapose, the two conflicting ideologies of the way appliance advertising presented woman in the early and late 50's, as well as show a correlation of its continuation into today's media outputs. I struggled with what effects could most clearly communicate that thought so that the order of events in the video would match up with the message goal at the end. I also struggled with some technical issues around the sizing of the video. Every time I imported it the video would zoom out the screen to about 200% without any prior editing to the clips/frames themselves. I was upset because the end product of the re-re-sized frame ended up grainy, as opposed to the really sharp imagery on the camera. Overall I had a really fun time experimenting with the literal and metaphorical interpretations in my video. At first I was startled that my video didn't look a lot like everyone else's in the sense of dialogue and a somewhat clear chain of events, but in the end I began to realize that I did end up getting my message across for the most part and was happy to find how my mind mapping came together on screen.