thriller retrospective.

so the thriller project is finally over for u1 36. its been a rollercoaster 4 weeks in which there has been fallouts, laughs, tears and lots of useless footage. yet i think the whole group has gained invaluable experience that we can all use in later projects, and in later life.

from day 1 our aim to produce a thriller that is exciting and eye catching has always been a priority. we have changed our ideas numerous times, yet the aim has always been there. looking back at the finished project, id say its exactly sticking to our aim.

so here it is, our thriller project "under your skin"

positive feedback

In Today's lesson we went around the classroom giving feedback to each other's thrillers.
I am writing out the positive feedback:


How varied did you find our camera work?

• 1st group said "Very good rang of shots and very experimental."
• 2nd group said " Very very good variety of shots and experimental. I liked he 'kiss' shot." (It's not a kiss shot though, It's Tarkwin blowing)
• 3rd group said " Lots of close ups and we liked the close up of Tarkwin blowing dust."

• 4th group said "Good use of shots."

Do you understand what's happening with he parallel editing?

• 1st group didn't say anything (we don't think they know what parallel editing is.)
• 2nd group said " The piece works well."
• 3rd and 4th group did not say anything nice. :(

Did you think the setting/mise-en-scene etc was appropriate and why?

• 1st group said " Setting is in the woods is 'good'."
• 2nd group said " Good use of props, mask and flower. good settings for a thriller."
• 3rd group said " It's very abstract and good lighting."
• 4th group didn't say anything nice again...
  

Did the structure make the story line clear?

• Only the 2nd group had a nice response which was " A bit unclear but that's normal for a thriller as all shall be explained in the rest of the film."

What do you think of the titles? do you think they look good on stills?

• Very simple, works well with footage
• Simplistic which works
• Titels were plain, quite simple - worked well.

SOUND

• Good audio
• sound worked well.

thriller reviews bad points

U1 35 said-

- bright colours, gave a cute and happy atmoshpere
-vaguely clear
-pixelated titles
-drums sounded bad in the music, gives wrong atmosphere

U1 34 said-

-storyline is unclear
-title needed to be brighter
-music needed to be faded out at the end

U1 32 said-

-no range in the camera work
-unclear story
-mask made an anonymous member (rowena) laugh. apparently not scary.
-vaguely clear
-some uncertainty
-no capital letters in captions
-music doesnt fit well with the thriller.

U1 31 said-

-doesnt suit thriller genre (well its hardly a comedy is it)
-storyline very unclear
-parralel editing makes it more confusing.
-some of the spelling of titles not corect (isnt that a spelling mistake tho?)
-random setting and some shots didnt make sense.

Deadline

The deadline is today, and for the first time in a while, it looks like we are on track.

At the moment, Dom and Lucy are working on the soundtrack. There has been a slight disagreement about the final title, as it is in a different font.

One clip was pixelated due to the age of the camera, but we cut out the frames in which the pixels were fractured.

Today we are going to edit the titles to look more interesting.

We will all be staying behind for an extra 20 minutes of editing time.

Today's Lesson

Today's lesson has involved editing footage and creating titles.

With extra time and a spare computer, I have also begun the soundtrack. With new, differently styled footage, we have to change the ideas for non-diegetic sound.

The rest of the group have their minds set to 'Emotion Piano' on Garageband, but initially they thought the '03' was the best option. In my opinion, '07' sounds better with the new footage of the mask. I will now ask the rest of the groups for their opinions.

The whole group is staying in the media room over lunch, as the deadline is fast approaching! How thrilling!

Today's Lesson and the extra time.

In the lesson we caught some extra footage of the mask on a table. We thought that it was really good, and although we were hoping to use both locations, the black room (which we used today) was ultimately more successful.

After the lesson I stayed behind for an extra hour and a half, uploaded the new footage, cut the clips, but all was lost! Fortunately, I had enough time to re-upload and cut the clips again.

The camera given to use was old, so didn't only have the option of auto-focus. This feature worked to our advantage, but the microphone was faulty. Thankfully we didn't need the audio, and the 'fuzzly' noise has given me a few good ideas for a soundtrack.

More from the rest of the group later, but from me, goodbye!