For my Digital Creativity Visual Project, I worked with Oliver Brown. Keeping in theme with our previous “podcast about podcasts”, we made a video essay about video essays– specifically about the culture surrounding the very lengthy ones. We speculate on why they exist, why they’re so popular, and provide personal anecdotes about experiences with them– and if they’re even “essays” at all.
While I iterated on the image project, and we rerecorded our audio project, we decided to keep the Visual Project the way it is. While there was definitely room for improvement, time and technological constraints prevented us from being able to rework it completely– notably, I lost some of the project files, so reworking my segment would have taken a lot of editing effort for a project I’m ultimately decently comfortable with submitting as-is. Additionally, the reworked Audio Project reflects a lot of the changes we’d like to have made with this one (e.g. making the audio more conversational).
We decided it was best to allocate our resources and energy into improving our audio and image projects. I’m comfortable taking this expense considering the fact both of us, having also taken Video Production this semester, have higher quality examples of visual/editing works in our respective portfolios to fill in for this– in particular, my video production assignment is active in my portfolio on my site.