Since I have started to put together my video, I have found that I am struggling to shoot clips to create an interesting video without repeating them and it becoming boring.
As a way around this I have decided to split the video into three smaller shorts. Each one will be 30 seconds – 1 minute, but focus on different aspects of anxiety/mental health. This way each video can be viewed on their own, but also together as a set without being one continuous long video, which runs the risk of becoming uninteresting and complicated in trying to create a clear storyline.
One of the videos – which I plan to be the first of the set – will not initally be obviously representing mental illness. I have mentioned this before and started to create a mock up of what it will begin to look like. The video will include clips of nature, with speech running alongside it, eventually started to discuss the idea of mental health.
The second video I want to focus on is the physical symptoms that come with anxiety. This one will be personal to me, showing close ups of different parts which are effected by anxiety attacks. For example I will focus of the hands to represent clenching fists, as well as the chest to show my struggle to breathe. I will not speak in this one, but instead intend to make it feel quite medical by having the beeping sounds which are similar to a heart rate monitor. Each beep will get closer together in time, which gives the viewer an uncomfortable feeling when watching the video.
I haven’t completely planned the subject of the third subject yet, but want to focus on recovery and the idea of being able to cope with a mental illness.
Final Major Project Kirsty Powell 