Having received feedback from the group I was a little disappointed that people didn't understand the style of our filming. Admittedly it was probably a bit of gamble to go for a shaky video style when we are constantly reminded to use tripods for every shot but having seen the other groups work I strongly believe that our film is the most cinematic. This static camera style that the other groups used is just so Soap feeling to me, it almost makes something hard to watch because the script is so important due to the Script being the only interesting aspect because nothing else is happening throughout the film. In complete honesty I think anything longer than 10 minutes filmed with a static camera would just send me to sleep. Looking back I feel as though the style of our camera work could of been executed better to make the style clearer to the viewer but I'm really pleased we took a risk.
The music that was produced by Mike was excellent, he really delivered for the group with this. With regards to the pointers that we received about the music I completely understand the comments and we will look to make changes where possible over the christmas period to correct this but I do feel some of the comments were a little harsh from other groups considering the fact that we (Mike in particular) were the only group to make the effort of creating our own music tailor made for the film when other groups chose to simply click the download button on a website.
The titles were a little simplistic, I felt they fitted nicely with the nature of the film at the time but I think we might look to do something a little more creative over the Winter break with this so I openly accept the comments on this without a hint of bitterness unlike the music.
The film has now been shown to one of our actors (Tony Claassen) who made a nice comment about some of the shots in the short film.
Watch this space, there will be an amended version coming soon.........
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