Blog Post NINE
As of course we had strong and weak points whilst filming our prelim, we have written a post about what we can improve on and what we think we did well on. You will be able to view this blog here
As we have previously written a over view on what we did well and what we could have improved on, we shall not go into detail with it all. However, as for the actual editing of our prelim, there are a few aspects in which we thought we have done well on and a few aspects that we could have improved on if we was to so this again.
5 things we did well:
- The cuts between shots that do not have an effect on run smoothly in transition to the movement around the location (e.g. the movement when going down the stair case)
- The effect that the music has on the sequence altogether- it adds to the effect of a following of a character, it's quite creepy and adds suspense.
- We white balanced our clips quite well therefore the shots look high quality and professional.
- The lighting of each shot was done pretty well within our sequence as our location initially is quite dark therefore we think we set up the lighting in good and practical settings in order to brighten the whole set.
- We somewhat stuck to the original storyboard idea, although a lot of shots got deleted and we added in the lift idea with the antagonist in it after seeing a lot of thriller openings, it sort of adds to the affect of suspense which we think we did well.
5 things we could improve upon:
- Within our sequence, we have used fade-in and fade-out transitions everytime the antagonist appears within the sequence. However, there is one point in which we have over placed a transition, one way we could have improved this is to get rid of 2 of the effects and just have one. You can see this in the screen grab below;
- Another aspect we could have improved on is the length in which our sequence is. However this isn't necessarily our fault, within the editing of the sequence the ending and build up got lost therefore we had to end it like we did. Click here to see our storyboard explaining our original idea.
- The timing of our sequence is quite short (again, there wasn't much we could do about that) therefore we could have made it a bit longer.
- As I have mentioned in our previous post, organisation of when we finished editing this whole task, we only got it finished and uploaded to the blog, the day of the deadline.
- Protagonist outfit. We initially wanted the protagonist to have a smart but casual outfit on, as we had to grab Katie as a very last minute move, her outfit was literally what she was wearing that day. We think that the jumper sort of contracts what kind of atmosphere we are trying to create and makes it comical.
Thank you for watching!
Preliminary feedback.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, this is not quite complete. you have evidence of MOA and not breaking the 180 rule. However, there is no S/RS sequence. You need this to pass. You will need to film a confrontation scene between your protagonist and antagonist in order to meet this requirement. Won't take you very long - she can literally just say "Boo" and you see the reaction shot.
What you have done is good. You have created some very good MOA sequences. Not sure I would use a fade transition. I realise you have gone for effect, but you don't need to suddenly go for a shoe shot, when we have already seen the protagonist - every shot has a purpose.
You have good lighting throughout.
Recognise the importance of tripods - there is some very shaky camera in places which makes the audience "notice" and therefore makes it less believable.
Well done and I hope it was an enjoyable experience.