Self Portrait and Music Video

I enjoyed working on the self portrait as much as I dreaded it. It's hard to put so much of your personal life on-screen for any number of people and requires a lot of courage. For mine I decided to use a lot of family videos from my early teen years and combine it with some footage from the modern day. It was kind of hard to transfer the old footage to mini DV because the videos were so old and the quality was very poor. I was going to go back even earlier in my life to when I was eight or nine to give myself plenty to work with. But those videos were in the worst shape of all and couldn't be used. What I did with all the footage I used was distort it using the fisheye filter combined with other stylized effects (ripples, solarization, desaturation, etc.). I also sped up most of the shots and ended up compressing about a half hour of video down to three minutes. You might call it the self portrait on several shots of adrenaline. It begins with a shot of people waking up in the morning and ends with nap time. The images were so hyper-stylized that I opted to not include the soundtrack I had created for it. People might feel as though they have been in combat if I had left the sound in there. It gave me a headache after I viewed it once so I decided to make it a silent film because everyone is going to be working hard enough to look at what's there. Apart from that I met with my group to discuss ideas for the music video and we made a lot of progress in the past two weeks. We have already shot a roll of film of the band performing