Art Movie Reflection

Leandra Urbanek

Title: Beware

Medium: Technology

Date: April 10th 2015

Technical: In this project, I used Adobe Premiere Pro, which was new to me. Although I have used video editing programs before, this one was much more complex, with many more options. I learned how to use this program to put videos together, put effects on them, insert new sounds and music, and how to make it all go together nicely.

Idea or Concept: For my idea, I really stuck with the same thing as my original idea, making the man open the locker and then having disaster strike after, like the temperature going up, the baby going down the stairs, and just any scene of chaos I could get from the clips. I added bits of extra pieces like eye close ups, and static at the end, and I took out the building exploding at the end. Otherwise, everything from my original plan was almost exactly as I planned it in my head in the beginning.

Influences: I did watch some of “The Tree of Life” movie to give me some ideas on how an art movie actually works. I also had the horror movie ‘Sinister’ in mind and the way it uses videos taken by someone of murders being discovered, which was what gave me the idea of using a video camera in the first place.

Composition: I tried to make everything look like they came from the same movie and time, using all black and white and also some noise and grain. I also changed the movement between the videos, sometimes making a smooth transition, while other times it was a choppy one. This helped give it the effect I was looking for at that moment, like nervousness for the choppy parts and a bit more calm in the smooth parts.

Motivation: If I’m being 100% honest, I had to work up a lot of motivation to do this project because art movies are most definitely not my thing. I didn’t really get the idea of watching one, let alone making my own, so I never really got the knack of it. It was kind of cool to see my work go from an idea in my head to a real video, but it really was not a project I enjoyed.

Critical Assessment: I feel like the part with the camera in between each shot turned out looking pretty good, and it really adds to the rest of the video. I also like the music I found, I thought it fit nicely with the video and it gave it a sinister feeling and invokes a sense of anticipation to what will happen next. For me, I was surprised at how easily everything did come together in a whole video, and how, using the endless effects and options, anyone could make a really nice video using this program. If I had more time and knowledge, I think I would have made the ending with the static go a little smoother, and I would have worked on the effects more in detail.