Trek Assessment #3

Everything taken into account, there were at least three sort of revelations or surprises that came about throughout the course of the treks. For one thing, a good portion of the material I wound up using was that material that I originally didn’t see having a lot of potential; granted I collected a lot of sounds and images, respectively, but I had an idea going into it that ended up totally changing.

Another surprise I encountered was in the editing process. I expected to use primarily movie clips, but I found that, to me anyways, putting the stills together was much more interesting and made it more dramatic.

Thirdly, I was also surprised to find that the pictures showed so much better when I looked back at them days after the actual photography was done. Most specifically, there were a few pictures I took of some dried reeds from a low angle so the sky filled the background. At the time it didn’t seem like anything special, but once I looked at it later, the colors were so vibrant and it was really crisp and clean, I had to use it.