After gathering all my research together, I decided to create a video essay upon how Wong Kar Wai influenced the second Hong Kong New Wave. I focused upon three of his films to do this, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and In The Mood For Love. I also benefitted from contextual research of Hong Kong in that period, using video interviews of Wong and videos of the official handover from Britain to China in 1997.
Initially, my aim was to discuss how Wong incorporates cinematic techniques in order to portray the social context of the period of time. This was fully supported throughout my script - with quotes from various sources outlining the context of HK at that time - this including books, websites and video interviews. I tried to captivate and emphasise a numeral amount of times how Wong does this each film, and I believe I have done this successfully.
When recording my voice over, I did end up stuttering quite a bit and having to re-record many times. In terms of equipment I used a Blue Snowball microphone in order for the audio of my voice to be clear and concise, rather than muffled. I recorded in Logic Pro X and then exported to audio as an AIF file to be added into my Premier Pro project.
The soundtrack was something I talked about in my essay, so I thought it was suitable that I incorporate each movies soundtrack to each subject. It turned out successful, however, audio levels at times became overpowering within the soundtrack, therefore being unable to hear the voiceover. To rectify this, I adjusted the audio levels of the soundtracks to -4db, whilst increasing my voiceover to +2db.
I feel that the structure in which the essay goes is fluid. I think that there is no confusion in following points due to the reinforcement of the visuals that are alongside it. One particular part i'm fond of is the transition from Chungking Express to In The Mood For Love. I felt that the audio and visuals transitioned perfectly without it seeming too abrupt, allowing a seamless transition for another point to be raised.
In terms of improvement, I believe that I could have found some more quotes/references in order to support the movies themselves, my contextual research was strong but that was my main priority, In terms of future projects, I will need to balance out the quotes I am looking for and make sure they are consistent across the Video Essay.
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