Portrait of a Place Afterthoughts

From my portrait of a place assignment, I learned that it takes more than long pan shots to tell a story. I wanted to convey the emptiness of the house but didn’t do so adequately and more or less made a video that a realtor could use for a virtual open house. Seeing the other work that my peers created I saw how to better convey a portrait of both a place and a person. Music or even ambient sound is an integral part of the final product even though dialogue isn’t allowed. Sound was vital to the portrait assignment though the focus was on the visual aspect. I learned from my peers, ways to better tell the story than the way I had. I could have utilized sound more and brought in outside objects to better convey my connection to the house and better tell the story visually.