My Final Reflection

 It has certainly been a long journey creating this project and I just want to say as much as I am excited to finally be done, I had quite a lot of fun creating this and being able to do this project. I not only was able to improve my skills when it came to creating productions, it also gave me fun memories with my friends and was overall just so much fun to make.

Now onto the actual reflection portion of this post, I want to talk about both the good and the bad, along as some input I got from sharing this with my friends.

I'll start with the bad because I want to end this post with what I did good. I think the last shot in my opening was a little bad, as in the lighting was a little off and the shot was a little too close to my face, however I may just be critiquing myself too much because when I showed my friends none of them noticed or even mentioned the last shot. Actually one of them just mentioned some other stuff such as in one of my shots the lighting was far too dark and the room was difficult to see, which I did end up fixing and she said it looked good after that. 

I want to move on to the parts I think I did good now. I think I did the lighting very nicely and just as I planned where I would use my LED light stick and my computer and other LEDs in my room to add many different lights. At first I thought the lighting ended up not being low-key because it was kind of bright in the raw clips, however after some editing magic I was able to make it look like exactly how I wanted it. I also think the recordings and the quality turned out really nicely, thanks to my friend Leah M. recording and partially me setting up the tripods and cameras myself.

Here is a shot from my final product where I thought the low-key lighting and overwhelming blue went together very nicely, since the point of the opening was to establish he had lost his sense of self, given by the title, the blacked out figure, and the blue background lighting.