Peer Evaluation
In today's lesson, Sonny and I watched Conor and Enniola's opening sequence, and they watched ours to see where we had got in terms of editing, and look at the similarities and differences of each other’s work to see what we could have included or what ideas are the same.
Some of the similarities that we both had was the structure. Both groups had decided to show Sarah in the bath room, followed by happy flashbacks and then the sinister flashbacks, the difference was that Conor and Enniola had used a lot more jump cutting throughout, there were lots of flashes between happy and sad flashbacks as well as Sarah crying, it was rather hard to get a grasp on what was going on. Their jump cutting can also be seen as a good thing though as it adds to the psychological side of the hybrid genre, Compared to mine and Sonny's type of jump cutting. We included jump cuts but mainly on the clips of Sarah crying in the bathroom, to play on the psychological side and create the enigma code of why is she crying? Toward the audience. From another prospective ours can be seen as a disadvantage maybe not playing on the psychological side of things enough, as well as loosing on out on viewing time as ours is one minute and ten seconds, whereas Conor and Enniola's is one minute fourty seconds, due to the fact that they included a lot more jump cutting.
Another similarity that both of our opening sequences had was the credits in terms of where they were placed. Conor and Enniola had also include the last line of the voice over jump cutted in between the sinister flashbacks at the end, but instead of having white handwritten font as originally intended they had used quite a flashy, blue, electrical colour, compared to ours where we had used a white colour but a more crackled font to mirror the crackled transition at the end of the opening sequence before 'AN IMPOSTER' appears. At the end 'AN IMPOSTER' also appears in red connoting death and violence which is shown throughout our opening sequence as well as it mirrors the blood and violence at the beginning so the idea was consistent, compared to Conor and Enniola's as they had 'Imposter' flash in a blue colour, where compared to red blue connotes a more calm feeling, considering there’s a flowing idea of domestic violence and possibly knife crime.
Both of our opening sequences also included a lot of differences such as the colours and effects used throughout such as the blood effects at the beginning. Sonny and I brightened the clips containing blood, so the red stood out more, and we slightly dimmed the red so it was darker and created a slight shadow around the drops making it look more like blood, compared to Conor and Enniola's interpretation of blood, as they darkened the clip so the blood looked really dark, which also looked very effective. Our happy and sinister flashbacks also varied in colour effects, Conor and Enniola hadn't added any effects during their flashbacks, they kept it in original colour throughout, which was very consistent, compared to Sonny and I, As we added in a sepia effect to the happy flashbacks, to show that they were flashbacks, but in a lighter happier colour, compared to our sinister flashbacks that are in a black and white effect, again to show that it's a flashback but also to connote the darkness of the domestic violence and mirror the character of James as he's shown as a dark shadowy figure.
I think that it was good to watch Conor and Enniola's opening sequence and compare them as I could see that we had both followed our origional ideas to an extent but had put our own interpretations in them. I can see that it was easier to split the group into pairs as our own ideas have been expressed better in the work that has been produced, as what I or Sonny may have wanted, Conor and Enniola may have not, but on the other side we have a lot of similarities and our opening sequence as a whole would have been fairly similar.
No comments:
Post a Comment