final class / final project

so i got a little behind on my reflections towards the end of the year, and i was absent two weeks ago so i missed one. but last class we mostly just worked on our final project and this week we critiqued them. it seems weird that the year is already over, and it was great to see how everyones final piece came together.
that being said, i was pretty unhappy with mine. i think technicially it was pretty good. i used the sounds from our sound project to create a heartbeat and i tried within the first second to create a tense feeling. i think in this part i was successful. conceptually, however, i wanted to illustrate how racism is institutionalize and not just the act of prejudice, and i wanted to try to get my viewer to think about that. where i went wrong, i think , is that i approached it from my own understanding after studying this topic intensely for a semester. i forgot that in the beginning of the semester when i first dealt with this topic, everything i ever thought about myself and race was completely questioned and changed. i forgot that what i was trying to convey took me months to accept and to realize, so how could i expect that of my viewers in a mere short video, especially when they do not understand what i am trying to do in the first place. i think that i was just overly ambition and made my piece more about my understanding of racism rather then reaching the viewers in an artistic and thought provoking way.
thinking of it now, i think it would have been better to go about the issue in some sort of satirical or ironic way, that way i could show the viewer that the issue is still relevant, because in order for them to eventually accept that the problem is not individual but systematic they must first see their is a problem