8/12

Today we got to finally watch each others films. It was really great to watch others films but I was shy about my groups film so I was nervous for when ours got presented. Watching other groups we saw a lot of techniques that were really good. Such as in pretty much every other group they used a technique of filming the subject through a mirror. We found a lot of people had really good film techniques and I think in comparison our's looks rough and choppy as well as not really good quality filming. Though what I really found was that our seemed a lot more rushed, even though a lot of others went a lot over the time limit whereas ours only went a bit over the limit. I think that we could have taken a bit more time to slow things down and that way our film could flow better. An improvement I remembered that we learnt from the other groups was that we should watch our films a couple of times at the end without headphones to check sound quality.

When we finally watched our film, I felt even more embarrassed as other groups were really good. Watching our film on a bigger screen and being conscious of an audience from outside our group really helped us realise mistakes that we had previously foreseen. We realised that the light was even darker on the projector then on the computer. As a result of this, things were even harder to see. We learnt today we could actually borrow special lighting from the film department that we didn't know about before. We from other's comments we found that the biggest problem with our film was that no one fully understood our entire film. Ways we could have improved this were to maybe have a couple more scenes that helped explain the storyline more and to have slowed down the pace of things so the audience had more time to process things. Other things that we could have done to help the audience understand better would be to show more of the powers that Yasmine's character Nightshadow and Tiara's character Flick have and maybe made Tiara look like she was running even faster, and we could have also used the names more so it would be more understandable who was who.

Today I think that I was a thinker and a communicator and was being reflective, open-minded and balanced.