Critique Reflection

• Examine the comments you received on your film.

• A lot of people really enjoyed my editing and camera angles. The close-up shot with Sam and Duane really showed a good sense of reaction and formal balance. The music fitted the parts when it was necessary and over-all it was a really enjoyable film with great acting.

• Reflect on what you feel you or your group did best

• We as a group enjoyed and did great acting performance. Of-course there was time for serious moments and comedic moments which we tried our best to incorporate both, which Sam did an amazing job at. We also did a great job with time management because we were one of the first done recording and it was definitely one of the longer videos as well.

• Reflect on what your classmates said you or your group did well.

• They all really enjoyed my editing, and camera movements. They also loved the groups acting as well as "bloopers" that Sam put at the end of his video.

• Reflect on what you feel you or your group need to improve on.

• Definitely more cooperation with some on the group members, but other than that, there's not really anything to improve on.

• Reflect on what your classmates suggested you or your group improve on.

• More edits or "background" to the story so the audience knows whats happening before the actual event, because the beginning was a little questionable.

• Finally, write a statement on your strengths and weaknesses

and formulate a plan for what to focus on during future projects.

What can you improve?

• The storyboard before the actual shooting of the film, I had a little trouble trying to coordinate it with the film itself.

What are your strengths and how can you make them

even better?

• My editing and "soundtrack". I can probably improve them by looking on more ways to import edits into the film to make it more enjoyable for others. Definitely spend some extra time searching some new ways to edit.

School 101

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              During the chase scene with Sam the Dolly Across shot showed the viewers on how intense the scene was, of-course until he ran into the teacher (Kaci). Then there was a reaction shot of Sam when he got caught. There was also a Quick Push In shot with the Bully (Sam) after he took Duane's money which showed the audience on how much of an evil person he is. In the film, there was multiple different shot angles to express the character or the environment. Most common were Close Up, and Over The Shoulder, but the other angles are clearly represented into the film. Recommendations would be quite simple, find background music first so it adds in a nice feeling when theirs not action, also making a lot of Audio Tracks in the beginning because especially when making a film where you can only use the sounds that you have to import is a rough challenge to fit them all in so it's best to overlap.