Interactive Project Evaluation

At the beginning of this project I was daunted by the idea of having to use Flash, as all of the other examples we were shown were flash based. After a bit of research I decided to make a movie, as editing is more of a key area for me to work in. I started looking at Lev Manovich for my theory research. After reading some of his book ‘Language of New Media’ I read that new media has to be mentally interactive as well as physical. An example he showed was a film made in 1929 Soviet Union called ‘The Man With The Camera’ and it was an avant-garde film consisting of shots of objects and places. Manovich explains how the film is about representation, and how the viewer has to mentally interact with the film to understand its meaning and context.
Once I got into the filming stage the project cam a lot more interesting. After filming I made three edits for my project, but then realized I needed all the edits to be in sync with each other. So I had to spend hours re-editing. The problem was one edit had too much at the start and one had too much at the end, so after many hours of editing I finally got three edits that were all in sync. I then put the edits into flash and made a mock up site. After the crit I had a fair few changes to make. First was the fact that none of the characters were introduced properly, also I needed to show how the real website would look, so I had to make a mock up of the showing someone hovering over the clip and it becoming bigger.
After I made the changes I think my product turned out successfully, I think my video related well to the theory side of the project, and I think the overall project was a success, I think the changes I made, made the whole project look and feel better.