SCREENING!

4th May, 09

We watched everyone else's films today.

I was disappointed to learn that Catherine has not completed the poster after she has declined my offer to complete it. We did not have a poster for our film.

First film we watched:
"Say Cheese" by (Sarah, Adrian, Bernice, Raphael, Ashley)
-the story was slightly weird, i didn't understand the first part where sarah was on the phone
-sound matched well with the cahse scene, though Miss Wong nad most of the class didn't think they matched.
-good use of the portal/cripple idea
-a bit too unreal, the victim should hae ran, instead of staying in one spot and posing for the camera
-shoud use more diagetinc sound instead of too much non-diegetic
-pacing was too slow
-well controlled,v understood how to control white noise better than any of the groups

"Babooshka" by our group: Catherine, Christopher, Xingyi, Camille (me)
-the directions from the portals don't match
-the scripting was obviously lacking in detail
-underdeeloped
-didn;t see portals, just cutting throught scenes
-good background sound capture
-story was little too unpredictable (in a bad way) and random
-POV are messy, mismathed
-need to balance the light and dark
-grainy (should have used HD)

"Wabbit Hunt" by Joyce, Elliot, Justin, Henry
-Very different, three chasing one instead of one on one, something nobody else have ever done before
-music matched the movie very very well
-great interpretation of the charlie chaplin style
-good portrayal of the comedy theme
-story line can get slightly messy
-some supposed diegetic sounds were too obviously fake and unnatrual
-subtitles were too small and hard to read

"High Octane" by Louise, Jeffrey, Ella, Andy, Louise
-music at the start didn't work out too well
-easy to get overrated
-artistically aware
-not enough portals, lots of just cutting through scenes
-music is too generic, like a teenage music video
-high production value

May 7th, 09

We continued watching the last film,

"Blanche" by Hannah, Julien, Jing-ting, Medora
-Background music quite inconsistant
-too abstract, audience hard to get what the story was trying to tell the audience. Because there was so little time to establish the the story, it has to be clear and direct
-taxi-office portal was really brilliant
-in some parts, the music was too intense for the vdeo
-story underdeveloped
-not enough portals

Problems/Difficulties:
-I think i had some difficulties to spot the problems or traits that make a movie bad from Miss Wong's opinions. Some movies I thought were really brilliant, like "Hight Octane", Miss Wong says that it is a bit too teenage music video. I think that is the problem that I may face when in future producing another movie. I need to learn how to see the movie in a different light than how I usually do to avoid making the movie generic, cliche and cheesy.

IB Learner Profile:
-Reflectors: watching other people's films made me realise how obvious it is that other groups have put in so much more work into their films than ours. I'm NOT saying that our group didn't put in effort, becuase I'm sure most of us did, but its just that our group didn't have really good chemistry. From interacting with them daily outside of film, I noticed our personalities and styles are very different from each the others, so while one of us likes an idea, the rest of the group doesn't like it, vice versa. It takes a long time for us to settle on one idea, and while we're trying to make one thing work, somebody from the group just had to do something to upset it.