The reflection for my sequence photography project in my photography class

1. Kitley DeFelice
Asli Narin
HER-K 201 Photographic Processes
16 December 2019
Sequence Statement
For me, the most challenging part of this project involved all of the time it took to edit each and
every single, individual photograph. I ended up having 166 photos, so that took A LOT of time to
get all of those images prepared and ready to be incorporated altogether into a video for the final
product for this project. I took a lot of photos for this project, but that part wasn’t hard for me,
because I enjoy photography. But after I had taken all of the photographs, going through all of the
photos from my camera, choosing which ones I wanted to ultimately use for my project, and THEN
editing all 166 photos took a lot of time for me. And then once all of that was finished, I had to put
it all together in a video, and the medium of video is not my favorite. It was a bit of an ordeal to
get some “free” no royalty no copyright ambient machine shop sounds to use in the background
of my video. What I ended up recording the day the weasel was moved was too staticky and not
going to work for ambience. However, after all of that work, I am proud of my final product. With
having to work in video, this project has increased my skillset in Adobe Premiere, which I am glad
for, since a lot of graphic media nowadays is video, so I am probably going to have to work with
it no matter what. It of course took about 25 minutes to render my 2 minutes and 38 seconds video,
which I ended up doing 4 times to get the video to where I wanted it (since the preview in Premiere
doesn’t show the full story of what the video will actually be like). I was actually inspired searching
online for ambient machine shop sounds; that was unexpectedly fun. I wouldn’t want to record
sounds as a job, but searching for sounds to use in my video helped me to be less afraid of and
stressed about video as a medium. I think that it was particularly helpful to see other students’
work for this project. It inspired me and gave me strength to tackle the medium of video that I had
to use for this project. This project has also strengthened my skills in using Adobe Bridge, which
I used A LOT with how many photos I originally took.