Day: March 5, 2019

Reflections

Reflection- Week 5

Taylor Moore

Five weeks in and my days are numbered with this project.

So last week wasn’t too eventful, but I felt like I didn’t get a lot done when I should’ve, even though our rough cut was done and we couldn’t shoot anything else, so I mostly felt like I wasted last week. I did end up getting a location that I wasn’t able to use anyway because of some other complications that’s making me kind of irritated, but that’s whatever. We now have a shooting schedule down, and we are able to actually have the time to be able to get the shots we need.

me @ myself

I feel like I have to manage my time better, since I have many other things going on at the same time and it’s just a lot at the moment, but once everything starts settling down, this project should be the least of my worries. It’s just a lot. Either way, I need to put more focus on this so it can be the best project it can be.

I also just want this to be over so I can edit it and make it look super cool and stuff, but that’ll have to wait. I can’t wait for that part though.

what does this even MEAN

Okay also WordPress hates me and suddenly won’t let me embed my rough cut so I might have to link it. I highly dislike this website.

Update- 3/5/19:

Suddenly, the YouTube video is working again and I didn’t even do anything to fix it. I have no words. What even is technology anymore.

Production

“I never want to watch this rough cut again.”

Taylor Moore
Me trying to find anything good in the rough cut

I was watching over my rough cut and set up a few questions for myself so I can reflect and improve on my next cut of the opening. I will also have a classmate of mine look over it and I’ll ask them a few questions to indicate if they can tell what my title sequence is about.

  1. How much continuity does the video have? Can it be improved anywhere and how?
    1. The continuity is alright in the beginning, but gets rough around the 1:30 mark. The conversation between the two detectives gets a little weird and rough because of the cuts and positioning of the camera. It didn’t flow as well as we wanted it to, but a re-shoot with some adjustments, it would be very beneficial.
  2. To what extent is the video readable within your chosen genre? Can you tell it’s a horror/thriller/comedy/coming-of-age etc.? How can this area be improved?
    1. I’m a bit subjective to my own film, but it does fit as well as we wanted, to my own eyes. To someone else, it could look a little different, but it shouldn’t be too far off from our own genre(s) that we picked. With some music and editing, our opening should easily fit the genre of mystery, not much with our actual footage might be able to fix that.
  3. To what extent is the video readable as a film opening? Can you understand that it’s an opening? Why or why not? What can you do to make it more readable?
    1. Again, I’m a bit subjective, but it introduces the characters, shows the struggles the detective is going to undergo, as we outlined in our proposal, shows the beginning of the plot, and doesn’t go into too much action or show the film as trailer-y as some other sequences have been. Also, adding our title and names of who did what are essential to a title sequence.

Next we consulted two students in our class, Ava Chandler and Kyler Dickerson, to watch our rough cut and give us some constructive criticism for our rough cut.

  • What is setting (time and place)? How can you tell?
    • present time because of the newspaper and authoritative looking office people
  • Who are the characters? How can you tell?
    • one who got murdered, lead detective and lower rank detective, main character is female detective
  • What is the movie going to be about? How can you tell?
    • about finding the truth of a murder, because its a detective scene
  • To what extent is it readable as a film opening?
    • felt like an opening to a tv show, started with murder
  • To what extent is it readable as a [insert genre] film?
    • yes very readable, dead woman, detectives, pretty much a crime thriller mystery drama
  • Overall, how might the clarity of meaning in the video be improved?
    • call her a detective to make it more clear that she is

This will be pretty helpful considering we were a little shaky on what we wanted for our rough cut. Once we improve some audio parts and some continuity errors, we will be alright.