Life is C between B and D by Jenny Choi
Created with VITA, exported as 1080p H.264
Visual Resources:
- person wearing gray shirt putting baby on scale by Christian Bowen on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- Man Stairs Heaven Old by Tumisu on Pixabay (Public Domain via Pixabay License)
- silhouette of person standing on rock sourrounded by body of water by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- woman spreading hair at during sunset by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- Choice Select Decide by geralt on Pixabay (Public Domain via Pixabay License)
- Untitled by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- man standing in the middle of woods by Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- Untitled by Jon Tyson on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- photo of road with pedestrian lane by Kristaps Grundsteins on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- woman in red jacket standing near green and white plastic crates by Big Dodzy on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- money by khrawlings on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
- Meadow Path Panorama Mountain by geralt on Pixabay (Public Domain via Pixabay License)
- two yellow and red wooden doors by Robert Anasch on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- clear hour glass beside pink flowers by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash (Public Domain via Unsplash License)
- So Many Choices by Alan Levine on Flickr (CC0 1.0)
Audio Resources:
Life is C (Choice) between B (Birth) and D (Death)
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Jenny,
I enjoyed seeing how you repeated the same images throughout your video. By cropping them, you were able to emphasize the choices that needed to be made throughout life.
Overall, your video had a very clear theme: life is all about choices. Your images depicted that message and didn’t leave the viewer guessing. With everyday encounters like street signs, doors, and symbols, photos like “woman in red jacket standing near green and white plastic crates” were not confusing. Your theme and images in relation to the audio were more overt, but the video did not come off as a literal representation of the lyrics. As for the image sequencing of birth, death, and the two images that repeated at the beginning of the video, I feel they nicely set the viewer up and provided a synopsis of what was to follow.
If you were to continue editing this video, I would suggest looking over the timing of “man standing in the middle of woods” because the fade doesn’t pop as clearly as the image prior.
I believe that the purpose of this video was to convey how overburdened we are by choice or perhaps that every moment of our lives is a choice. I enjoyed seeing the use of cropping images to force a different idea into perspective. Just based on the title I was worried it was going to be a political video about pro-choice/pro-life which is against the rubric but I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed your ending zoom as it went into your credits and think you sync’d to the beat really well.