Yes, it is awful. Due to circumstances entirely in my control, that is to say...circumstances that I should have been aware of but was not since my memory is mostly closely defined by crap. I decided to use a door I bought a year or so ago for a previous project with the intention of doing just about what I did, with a much more political meaning, however, I completely forgot that I had already used both sides of the door for previous projects, and ended up having to step away from my previous idea and engage in something that might be able to use the term "Ignore this". While I feel that the result has become a bit too insular, I have put enough effort into this that I will turn it in and make another pass at it at another date, since not even the tomatoes left the deep red mark I was hoping to achieve, and it would take too much time to go through and mask out the selected areas to up the red where they exploded.
The primary frustrations with this, after my initial idea failed, were throwing out my original recording after I realized the text I was nailing on the board was too small for anyone to know what it was...and trying to get the last 3 seconds to play backwards. Photoshop was failing me since I couldn't get it to open up an image sequence, but I ended up just changing the names of all the shots individually, which always sucks on a Mac.
What I've learned from this is that it's going to be a long semester if I can't come up with some more interesting ideas. I've also figured out that I really need to figure out how to seamlessly edit as there are several areas in this piece which are blatantly cut. I just wish I could add tape between those screens so I could at least make it look as though I was physically cutting/editing it.
I'm having issues getting the video to upload to the internet. Will post it when I can get it on there. Meh, would only let me do it as a MP4.
