Evaluation

Animatic

In our final cut of the film, we have not followed the storyboard because the shots did not work out.

Sound

The music was from a noncopyright source, and it matched the action very well. We didn't use many music tracks when editing, we used parts from each song and applied them to the fitting section. For example the excersice routine was the only section that we struggled with importing the music. The tracks on the website we got the music from were to our liking. After about 40 minutes of searching, Laura and Sophie finally found a fitting track named 'Tough Titty' to use. Overall Perry and I focused on the editing but it was a team effort.

Final Cut of "Upstaged"

Voiceovers

This was the stage, that we were all dreading. It was either going to help the final outlook or ruin it. We were able to record and stich them together to a high standard. Another group in our class also used voiceovers. Recording took a lot of time because we had to plan, script it, find a quiet area to record and lip-sync it. The syncing bit was difficult becasue we could only do it whilst watching the video. Perry came up with the idea on using a video phone to record. We had to talk in time with the action and it took as three times to do it.

The voiceovers is a key element in our film and they work really well. They explained the plot, and character's background to the audience.

First Draft of our film and feedback from class

As the genre of "Upstaged," is a comedy we wanted to make the audience laugh and like the first two minutes of this future film. When presenting our first viewing, we did accomplish our goal on making the audience laugh. But professionaly, our teacher thought we still had technical issues to improve on. We did not have any titles (Director, Costume Designer, title of film e.t.c) and we still had to cut a few shots down because it was longer than the aquired time. Furthermore we were advised for the action to reel smoothly instead of jumping from one shot to another, so for our montage shots, we used a fade to fade into one shot to another. It worked well in my opinion.

Our first viewing, did contain voice overs which was enjoyble and it is the highlight of our opening. It helps the audience understand the story. Many films in the industry, use this technique of voiceover/narration.

"Upstaged," was scheduled to be placed at the beginging of the action, but we decided to place it at the end because it flowed with the voice overs and the music. (Our music was not from copyright.) Our main problem was the lighting because when we used a low angle shot of Perry before the montage of the park, it was hard to establish Perry's facial features so Perry decided to create an effect while editing to make it more bright and realistic.

Our downfall for this film was the mise-en- scene. In my opinion I did not work hard enough on preparing my costume. I should of worn high sparkly black leather trousers, a moustache and a matador waistcoat. Instead I wore jeans, a white shirt and gelled my hair back till it hurt. I was disappointed because I thought the spanish character was not believable and I did not think, the audience would know I was a spanish dancer. In my opinion our group should of met a couple of days before shoot, and we should of prepared properly. We thought to reshoot some shots with our better costumes, but the deadline was just around the corner so we left it.

We finished before the deadline and we were very pleased with the final outlook. We all came a long way and we have got stronger on our camera, editing and mental skills. We agree that the project has been worthwhile, and we still have to look back and improve on the minor issues to push us to the Agrades.

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Animatic Feedback

When we introduced our animatic for our film opening to the class, it lacked visible structure. Some shots were shown twice, and the final production had cut the first four shots. Our teacher told us to explain the plot more, because it was not explained clearly to the audience or the class. Our teacher described our shots as just movement scenes. When we started our first storyboard, we did not add any titles, or shot numbers which made us frustrated and we had to start again.

When I was filming the animatic, I did not use a tri-pod, I just used the hand held camera which made our shots very blurry and jumpy. We noticed this, when we saw it as a final production. In addition our idea was original but as a group we would have to review it, re-structure it and change ideas that would make our film opening appealing and effective to the targeted audience.