Presentation of 2 Minute Film

  Before the presentation of our film, I suggested that we met to check that it had all burnt to the disc ok - as I know that some problems can occur, such as the quality getting worse.
  This was a good idea as we found out that the picture of the film had stretched dramatically, cutting off the sides of most of the footage. We asked Chris to help us with this as we were unsure of how to fix it - after multiple tries of changing the aspect ratio. I'm not sure why the problem occurred but we managed to fix it by making the 'image+wireframe' visible on final cut, and dragging the picture size to fit into the viewer. I had to do this for most of the shots. After exporting it we still had a similar problem, however Chris assured us that 'Toast' would sort it out - which it did.

  After the viewing of our film, we gained some good feedback from our classmates. They specifically liked the warm tone to the piece and someone also mentioned that they liked the music (something that the tutors did not).
  Something that Chris picked up on was that he did not realise it was a woman  in the piece - but thought it was a child. I am glad that this was put across as it was our aim. After watching it so many tines throughout the process, you begin to doubt yourself as to whether it worked, so I am therefore very happy that it did. However, Chris also said that it was not to his taste at all, and to bare this in mind throughout his feedback. The main thing he did not like was the music, as it was far too predictable and stereotypical for this type of film - However I have mentioned the reason why we did this in a previous post. Annie however thought that it did work to a certain extent as it enhanced the character's repetitive mannerisms.
  Another thing that Annie thought worked was the use of silhouettes, and read into the fact that the opening image could represent Lola's changing maturity, as it goes from big to small when she wafts the sheet. Although this was not our intention, I liked this idea a lot and plan to make everything in our 10 minute piece have a reason - Something that each interesting shot symbolises.
  After watching other people's films, I became to understand the effects silence can have on a film. I think that this is something that we can experiment with in our 10 minute film - especially because I want it to be more sinister and dark in comparison to the 2 minute character study.

  Overall, I think that our 2 minute character study could have been better, through adding more interesting sound and more symbolic shots, however, I am happy with the end product we had despite the problems with last-minute filming due to an unreliable actress. I think that having a tutorial with Annie, prior to editing would have helped dramatically as it would have helped us to evolve our piece more.