Reflection for "The Water is Wide"

1. Through our music video, we were trying to evoke the story of a boy and airplanes. The story is of a boy who looks up to his father, a pilot. The boy has dreams and aspirations of being a pilot just like his father. Then, one tragic day, his father dies in a plane crash. The boy then throws his dreams away because he is afraid he will die just like his father. But at the end, the boy who is then a man gets the courage to fly just like he always wanted to. 2.The part of the film that I am most proud of is the part of the story when the father is teaching his son about flying. It took some work because we made the airplanes in the pictures look like they were really flying. We had to use a moving effect and set key points for how fast we wanted the plane to look like it was moving. We wanted this part of the film to represent the part of the story when the father was teaching his son about flying. I really liked our choice of images because even though many of them were just symbols, they represented the mood we wanted to evoke. During the beginning, we used soft, bright colors and soft shapes to give off a happy, dreamy mood. Toward the end of the film, we used very dark colors and more pointed shapes to suggest a depressing mood. We also showed symbols of victory at the very end to show the accomplishment that the main character feels. 3.Probably only about ten percent of our video is made up of abstract images. We used identifiable objects in our pictures, but they were used as symbols of the moods we wanted to show. But we were pretty consistent about using flowers, clouds, lights, and other soft symbols to represent happy moods. We also were consistent about using darker and sharper images to represent an uncertain and sad mood. 4.By working on this project, I learned that abstract images can speak 1,000 words. I learned that sometimes abstract images can bring a mood across better than an identifiable picture can. I discovered that colors play a huge part in what moods are evoked. 5. I learned that music can create a story of picture. And the most amazing part of this fact is that everyone's mind can see a different story with the music.I also discovered that when music is added to different abstract images, the music can make those images come to life. 6. The most important contribution my partner made to the project was helping choose different images to evoke the mood we wanted. His ideas on which images to choose definitely helped bring our video together. 7.The most important contribution I made to the project was adding different effects to our images, and figuring out the timing of the music with the images.