Thursday, March 4, 2010

Edit demo critique

1) Our story demonstrates our concept well considering our shots could have been done a little better. However, Me and Dazzy were able to get the idea of the concepts, point of view and 180 degree rule, to be explained clearly. For example Jr. looking at someone pick up his dollar on the floor in first person point of view, creating conflict followed by Raul and Jr. "fighting" each other using 180 degree rule. This was somewhat difficult because some of our shots could have been placed better, such as a shot of Jr. and Raul walking behind one another to create background and foreshadowing of plot. Also lighting was difficult to control when filming outside and filming seens of characters in door ways where the differing contrast of light flowing through the camera created a multitude of shadows that may have made some of our shots more difficult to see.

2) Our actors were joking around a lot throughout our piece, but that made our piece a lot more fun, considering they were supposed to be mad at each other or at least their characters were. Overall we were able to capture our actors, quite well throughout the film except in the end after the fight, they began to smile, which is a major blunder, or the characters became good friends and couldn't be mad at each other, finally reaching a level of maturation within their young adult lives signifying a desire to do something better in life than fight, but that is (B.S.). Overall our shots could have been better and we should have had more examples of point of view and 180 degree rule. However one good shot that I thought was done well was where the characters are seen through the door way, which seemed unique to me, with the entire school court in the background. Although we were able to portray some interesting shots, we could have done many more things, which really shows the various takes on certain situations that a director or editor can illustrate when creating a film, whether it is 30 seconds or 3 hours.

3) some of the challenges, being an editor involved trivial matters such as learning new ways of manipulating footage to portray individuals and make the film, overall, more interesting than it would have been just playing the original recorded information. Also, the placement of certain clips in areas to convey action seens or continued motion through doors was difficult getting the exact timing. One thing that I had to do to demonstrate my concept in the edit was to do the voice overs to give context and talk to the audience about the concepts, point of view and 180 degree rule. I also had to break down the individual actions of the characters to demonstrate the aspects of the concepts and to slow down the film, such as the scene where Jr. is looking at the dollar through the door way, slowing down the rate.

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