Notes from 27/11/09 – Talk with Tutors
We will take notes on what has been said in this discussion as use it to redevelop areas of the film. The comments from the tutors were both positive and negative; the negative were constructive comments that we can review and see where we have gone wrong, these will be taken in to account throughout the next week when we are editing our work.
Comments from the Group
- After just exiting the flat add in footage shot down by waterloo of the waters edge and walking through the crowd.
- Trees / Wood add in slots of the city (overlap/ and over lay shots)
- When Little Red Riding hood exits Burlington Arcade cut shorter the end part of the shot we do not need to watch her walking down the street.
- Shorten the bridge scene shot in waterloo, as well as this lengthen the time when the bridge shot merges with the street pavements. Changing the degradation of colours to allow them to switch with a smoother transaction.
- Watch “Don’t Look Now” and reference in research.
Tutors Comments
- Have voices coming from nowhere working with the scene or with the music, use these to create and initiate an emotion. This adds a layer of uncertainty.
- NO TEXT, however with voice can be used but must be edited with care so as not to make it stick out with a sore thumb.
- Some scenes last way too long, change to see what brief and blunt shots would look like instead.
- Shots of character in some parts are too long; we know at the beginning that she is human. However fleeting glimpses of her would create this illusion that she was no human but was an animal or minster.
- Trying just to get the cape in the shots.
- Take out the shots of the metro not needed. Instead snap shot of her entering the train station, the one of the getting on the escalator, then the footage of her going down the escalator. However cut short the end of the escalator footage till just after she appears. Then jump straight to the footage of her getting on the train. Short and sweet!!
- Reduce the amount of effects used; this will create continuity, understanding, and relation throughout the movie. Understanding the function of the effects used allows for the movie to flow.
- NO pop and NO jazz, no music that is noticeable to the viewer, best thing to do is to make our own music and make it suit the film adding understanding,
- Maybe listen to the “Don’t Look Now” sounds track, the music used is obscure and fits the action-taking place. Also look at the sound track for “Stalker”.
- Reduce the amount of wobbly footage. However the use of some is good as creates an uneasy feeling.
- Use sounds that make the viewer feel uneasy such as screeches, loud piercing sounds, loud busy noisy places etc.
- Try to link scene more coherently such as the woods scene and the use of Trafalgar square, the mirror bubbles and the convex tube mirror. Maybe look at making this some form of disjointed imagery.
- Reflection of cape linking with city scenes, not having the mirror bubbles right before the convex mirror shots.
- For the end of the film, Little Red Riding hood could be consumed by what she views as reality; which is not reality in fact. The sheets surrounding her could engulf her, these might symbolise her imagination and her thought pattern.
LOOK AT AS A GOUP FILM CALLED THE RED SHOES….
Music video for red shoes by Kate bush
Look at the Red Shoes story by the Brothers Grimm.
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