FICTION ADAPTATION: CRITICAL REFLECTION

For me this unit has been a highly technical I have worked a lot on post production with After effects and Photoshop. They have been really interesting helpful aspects that helped my final film and will give me a skill for the future especially with after effects. Whilst filming I made use of a projector to produce an interesting range of shots which allowed me also to show what the poem was talking about without cutting away from the scene. Its been quite an interesting unit which tested my idea of what an adaptation was through the essay and what I did with the film. I think I'd say I wasn't that faithful to the source material in the end, but that wasn't the goal of the project. I found it a really enjoyable process to try and find different and original ways to adapt this spoken word poem which had its own underlying themes of patriotism or possibly ant-patriotism and even racism. This unit went pretty well for me I haven't encountered many problems the only thing I would say is that I had some problems with exporting in the correct aspect ratio, I believe this is because of my use of After effects and photoshop and inexperience in changing formatting between them and premiere.