Experimental Film Feedback

On Thursday, myself and George presented our experimental film titled 'Aint no time for nobody' to Debbie, Dom and the rest of the seminar group. Although we knew it wasn't the final piece especially as we were struggling with re-opening our soundtrack the previous day to edit it more, it was very helpful hearing what everyone thought about our film and also to see how other groups were getting along. We got some very solid and fair criticism about certain shots we had almost 'thrown' in and it made us think about what else we would change and which shots didn't  really have a whole lot of meaning to them. The majority of the group and tutor feedback we got was to delete the end sequence we had where the music slows down and we show reverse shots.

We both agreed after talking about it after, that these shots were not necessary and didn't really fit with the rest of the film. Although comments about the end sequence were brought up by Debbie, the rest of the class didn't really mention anything wrong with the way the sound changed and only had a problem with the reverse shots, so with the footage we have, we will play around with what form of a sequence we can have at the end. Both of us like the focus pulls we've captured and agree that their meaning is definitely something we want to include in the film as it shows what a lonely place a busy place can actually be and how people are wrapped up in their own worlds. We may add some blur effects to these end shots to give a heightened sense of this.

All in all, I'm still very happy with the context of our film and with the style we've edited and shot it in. The feedback we got was also very helpful and we will try and incorporate the majority of 'errors' within the film to enable us to convey our thoughts effectively through film.