Teacher - Draft Feedback

Draft Feedback

Highlighted Problems

One very noticeable problem within our draft edit was the breaking of the 180 degree line rule, with our camera crossing the line and confusing our audience as to what actions are being carried out. This issue has now been resolved with the removal of the certain piece of footage that broke the rule.

Other minor things were noted before the release, such as the wind in the background, making the natural sound very distorted and loud - causing some transitional  problems between certain scenes, making them seem very disjointed. This problem has also been resolved by placing a continuous background sound of the surrounding area we filmed in at the time.

Problems with scene cuts were mainly due to the fact this draft edit was done on imovie - which is a really limiting programe when I comes to certain cuts when slow motion effects and cross-devolves are being used. Some clips require trimming which has been done - the slow motion has also been sped up so panning seems more natural and stable. 

A distinct lack of close ups seem to lie within our sequence - this problem has still not been met with a salutation due to the fact we do not wish to do more filming, which as it stands seems to be the only possibility of getting more close ups within our sequence.

Considering we did not use all the footage available to us we managed to keep a narrative going throughout the scene - using simple codes and conventions of thriller to back up the notions of mystery and the unknown. As it is our first edit there still seems to be a lot of work to be done. Despite our problems we are happy with our frist edit and found the feed back we received from our teacher extremely helpful - allowing us to take our opening sequence to the next level and develop the conventions to get an even better affect.