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Video Art Evaluation

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I will give myself 79 for the video I shot. It is fairly engaged the project theme. It is a non-narrative video and exactly one minute. I think the most prominent point of my video is the conceptual development. I watched carefully of the videos you played in the class and put on the coursespaces. I also watched many video art projects after class in order to apprehend the idea of video art and tell the differences between video art and film and cinema. Then, I chose to shoot a video of my friend who performed a series of body movement. She did a handstand at the beginning of the video, and she tumbled for three times, then tried to stand upside down for many times; in the end, she showed a state of physical exhaustion. I designed all the actions, and did all the shoot and edit work. I believe the content of my video is fairly well with the category of video art. The most dissatisfied of my my video is the quality of it. It is not very clear and showed my poor grasping of basic camera knowledge. Actually, when I borrowed the camera (Nikon D90) from the department, they told me that it is not good for shooting videos. Those better cameras( the Cannons) were all borrowed by other students. So when I was shooting the video and found the images is somewhat blurred. But I thought that was the best that …show more content…

But I decided to erase the audio at last not only because the camera captured the ambience(my sounds). In fact, I tried to keep the environment as silent as possible. But when I was checking the videos, I heard very big noises which was produced by the camera itself( the camera is old and not in very good condition). I could not eliminate those noises no matter what I tried. Compared to contain those noises in my video, I believe it is better to eliminate the audio, which also create a atmosphere of calm and make the audience to appreciate the movement more

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