Here is my first attempt at my artefact:
Looking back at my artefact i feel uploading the photographs in a video player make them look less clear than than did when you perceived them in the first instance. Each image was uploaded like this because i wanted to show a sequence of the effect of alcohol and memory also reinforcing this by including black in between certain sections of the photos. This black represents the specific part of your memory where you don’t remember how you got from one scenario to another. I feel i portrayed this well with the different locations after every blacked out image, giving the effect of a missing gap in memory.
Although i achieved what i wanted with the blackouts i still felt i didn’t relate my piece enough to memory loss through alcohol as i mention earlier in my arefact research and working out. I found through planning and then producing so many different ideas come to mind and make you sway away from your initial goal. While shooting i thought about point of view shots, also creating more of a narrative where something is misplaced then revealed in the morning when the alcohol has worn off. I attempted a few as you can see in my flickr photos for example the putting keys in the fridge photograph.
Overall i feel i need to think thoroughly about what i want to achieve and not try to add to many things together because in the end it may lead to confusion and not represent what i initially intended. Due to this I will try to attempt another aretact just improving the selection of shots i took.
Here is my second attempt at producing my memory artefact:
Depicted in my slideshow are the range of shots I felt better represented memory.
This is evident by the use of point of view shots and the blurred effect in majority of the photographs. This perpetuates the vision of the subject under the effect of alcohol and their memory of their action.
Although I can give positive reflection on my work there are also negative aspects. The second piece doesn’t give of the same feel I got from watching the first one. However I did feel the last set of images in the first attempt starting lacking in colour purpose. I really struggled with the lighting throughout the shooting process and realise the importance of light and the selection and type of lighting to go well in that given location.
In comparison the second attempt fixed directly to close ups giving the effect of perception almost exactly from the eyes of the subject. This is positive yet negative because the range of shots used then became limited and lead the sense of narrative slightly confusing. Although this is the case I can say I favoured shots from both artefacts, I just lack in ordering the photos into a sequence. Nevertheless the ending for me highlights the narrative of alcoholic behaviour and the memory of it when looking at oneself in the mirror.
Differences are clearly portrayed in the second attempt where I decided not use myself in the photographs because I knew the particular shots I wanted to achieve and taking the shots myself to represent my techniques.
When I finalised the first attempt of my artefact I wasn’t happy with the way the images looked distorted and pixelated as it was uploaded on a video player. Determined to not achieve the same outcome I resized all my images from 3000 x 2000 to 1800 x 1197. This created a clear picture when I then edited it together and uploaded it onto a video player. However once i uploaded it onto youtube the same pixellated effect occured and im not sure if this is due to particular settings on youtube or whether my image are still too big.
