Today I showed Simon my first edit for 'Far Gone', in order to gain some constructive feedback with as to what I can work on. I didn't find any of his points unfair, and they were definitely elements I could work on. Firstly, he picked up on my use of titles throughout, and how they were too 'forced'. I could understand where he was coming from here as they did seem unnecessary. The idea behind the trailer is to show and
not tell the story. By having too much writing would be telling too much. Besides from this it was almost as if the writing was trying to say "look at this! Keep Looking, feel emotion" which wasn't the intention, but how it comes across. I then went onto removing most text and keeping it simple with my film company logo, the name of the film and the credits; the rest was unnecessary.
Another piece of feedback was the overpowering music that distracted from the radio audio. Because the music contained vocals, it didn't really work, and most traders simply include instrumentals. To overcome this, I got a piano instrumental version of the same song and replaced it. The extract was shorter as I felt the
'Mad World Instrumental' worked better for the rest of the piece.
My flashbacks were critical to the piece, but they needed to have more emphasis. They should therefore appear more technical than the initial lens flare I originally had. After speaking with Sam, we decided it would be a good idea to add an overlay to reinforce the flashback. The first one to work on was the flashback of his sons car accident. We found some film burns and I selected one to import into my project. It now extends the flashback introduction; the quick end worked well as it was a snap back to reality. This scene was important, and was inspired by a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's
North by North West. I wanted it to look as effective as possible in its portrayal. With regards to the second flashback of his wife funeral, the style suited it and fit well with the scene. Because it worked so well, it wouldn't have hurt to keep it there longer, and not cut out so quickly. I therefore used the
rate stretch tool to make it slower, which worked in its favour in appearing as a flashback.
Today I showed Simon my first edit for 'Far Gone', in order to gain some constructive feedback with as to what I can work on. I didn't find any of his points unfair, and they were definitely elements I could work on. Firstly, he picked up on my use of titles throughout, and how they were too 'forced'. I could understand where he was coming from here as they did seem unnecessary. The idea behind the trailer is to show and not tell the story. By having too much writing would be telling too much. Besides from this it was almost as if the writing was trying to say "look at this! Keep Looking, feel emotion" which wasn't the intention, but how it comes across. I then went onto removing most text and keeping it simple with my film company logo, the name of the film and the credits; the rest was unnecessary.
Another piece of feedback was the overpowering music that distracted from the radio audio. Because the music contained vocals, it didn't really work, and most traders simply include instrumentals. To overcome this, I got a piano instrumental version of the same song and replaced it. The extract was shorter as I felt the 'Mad World Instrumental' worked better for the rest of the piece.
My flashbacks were critical to the piece, but they needed to have more emphasis. They should therefore appear more technical than the initial lens flare I originally had. After speaking with Sam, we decided it would be a good idea to add an overlay to reinforce the flashback. The first one to work on was the flashback of his sons car accident. We found some film burns and I selected one to import into my project. It now extends the flashback introduction; the quick end worked well as it was a snap back to reality. This scene was important, and was inspired by a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's North by North West. I wanted it to look as effective as possible in its portrayal. With regards to the second flashback of his wife funeral, the style suited it and fit well with the scene. Because it worked so well, it wouldn't have hurt to keep it there longer, and not cut out so quickly. I therefore used the rate stretch tool to make it slower, which worked in its favour in appearing as a flashback.
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