Evaluation

I found this project fairly difficult to be honest from an idea point of view I found it difficult to remain abstract and plan out the whole of my trailer from start to finish. Many of my ideas were loose and based on certain parts of the JFK speech and while I do think I had some good ideas in places I think my final trailer would be a lot better if I had a clear plan from the start. WIthin this was the pitch process which was useful although I was not fully prepared for it and again found it difficult to put my ideas for video into a presentation but looking back it was a good learning experience. 

Moving onto a software point of view I enjoyed this project as video editing is fun and something you can really get involved with. Also I knew final cut so editing and cutting together my footage was not difficult. I did have to make kinetic text however and the two programs I used were motion and after effects (mainly using the latter) These were programs that I had not used before so learning the basic of these was really helpful and good experience for the future. I enjoyed after effects and will definitely be experimenting with it in the future to see what kind of stuff you can make.

My final trailer I think is ok, I like the first half of it till you get to the applause however then I think you can see that my ideas get weaker and eventually run out. This is disappointing in my opinion as I think I could of made it better however I think the meanings behind the footage is clear and relates to the struggles, challenges and also the success of JFK's reign as president. 

Overall I think there are lots of positives to take from this project such as learning new software and getting better with ones I already knew as well as this it gave me more experience in presenting ideas for video. However I do think there are ares I could of improved on the second half of my trailer being the biggest.