Tuesday, 20 November 2012

The Big 'To do' List

My current to-do list is compiled from both the feedback I gained as well as the parts that I hadn't yet completed before exporting my first edit. Below shows both of these as a reminder of what I still need to do before the final edit. Although this is the current list, I will need to be prepared for this to potentially be extended after I have received some feedback from my peer assessment:


  • The finalised music - I didn't want to have to rush my musical score as I feel it will need much attention due to its importance. I don't have any dialogue so I need the music to do the talking! So that the draft doesn't look too boring to watch, however, I have looped the Garage-band track that I used for my animatic simply as an example of the sort of thing I want to re-create. 
  • Transitions for the title/credits - I have created my title and credits on Live Type but have not yet decided how they will appear in terms of transitions (e.g. fade in and out or fly in etc..). In the draft, they simply appear and this looks messy - but will definitely not be staying like that!
  • The two missing shots - I have still been unable to find the two missing shots! I will be re-filming these again soon but for the mean time there are simply blank black spaces (or for the missing sketch shot - a still image of the sketch)
  • The right time frame! - I am way over the limit regarding time, so I will need to think about cutting down some shots or editing some parts out


  • I was also given the point that perhaps from most of the scenes/memories it was not obvious enough that the awkwardness was down to the boy being too scared to say "I love you". My Media Studies teacher in particularly suggested that the only scene that it was explicitly clear was the one where the boy uses the alphabet spaghetti to spell out the words. Rather than re-filming, however, I feel, and my teacher agreed, that perhaps it would be better if I switched that scene round with the picnic one, so that it appeared first chronologically. This would mean that for the other scenes where it is not too obvious on its own, the audience would be able to understand what is going on due to understanding the first scene - to do = switch scenes round
  • Another thing I noticed was that for the credit shot, the camera is wobbly. As nothing particularly happens in this shot, I can simply change this to a freeze-frame.
  • For the title, the live-type title aspect needs to be angled so that it is parallel with the paper



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