Rostrum Assigment Inside The open Sea
For this Rostrum exercise, a 2minute Archived material shows the story of my father (Khaled Shalaby ) swimming the English Channel from, Dover to Calais, France back in 1983 , on the 20th of October, in 16 hours, 20 mins Solo, 1 way / England to France. Through explore the creative potential of After effects and photo shop , practical and software skills in particular areas were developed as shown. This story is very close to home, Waves sound effects were added to give the feel of the sea, during the recording my Fathers's heavy breathing was used to show how heavy the journey must have been. The title Inside the Open Sea, was aimed at explaining the long heavy Journey of swimming the English Channel.
Through his own words, his experience is explained and his emotions after succeeding are explained, of how this journey made sense to him.