The help sheet given did not display any type of story and would have been very simple and boring without contrast or dialog. What me and my partner (Lizzie) decided was to create a scenario where the dominate male is the boss of an organisation and phoning the vulnerable female to tell he she was unsuccessful in her application. This then create a story to also add to the effect the males environment is beautiful with plants and sunshine including a very nice and tidy desk. Whereas the females environment is very dirty and untidy therefore creating a stronger contrast. The female throughout the conversation is being cut of and being hung on up then her dramatic walk out of the door for the final shoot of the shoot film. Due to the short amount of time the M-E-S (Mise En Scene) wasn't very effective as we had to pull out models/actors at the last moment so the costumes were not effective and therefore could have improved. Another piece of the film that i didn't like was the mistake of filming and not noticing myself and the other groups were in the reflection of the shot. This isn't extremely noticeable but bugged me more than others. This was all captured on a camcorder and was then edited in IMovies on the Mac. With the Mac the editing was difficult but for a first attempt I feel it went fairly well. The sound was included for the start of the movie (Muse – Starlight) then gradually faded in time for the dialog. Once we had the final dialog the music then gradually faded back in and then run an extra 2-3 seconds to create suspense before ending the film. Using the cutting tool to separate clips to either remove or crop the length of the clip is very useful and now I will record for that extra second to make sure that I have everything I need and I will be able to minimize the length of the clip.
Overall for the first attempt it wasn’t too bad. In the evaluation I would have rated this level 2-3 there were a few mistakes but it is all trial and error in editing until it has come naturally. The experience I have learnt is how important efficient and successful storyboards and planning is and therefore I will concentrate on improving this for my next project. I will publish a more detailed evaluation soon.
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Some good ideas, and I like that you're being self-critical. I agree with your points, the mise-en-scene was totally wrong. Planning is so, so important! The contrast of the messy woman/ organised man was lost on me. It looked like April was just bizarrely clearing a desk for no reason. What could you have done to make it clearer? Perhaps have her search for her phone in the mess?
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