The final crit screening of the course. This time I was more nervous because it relied on me to whether our course leader thought we had delivered what we had pitched. Watching it through, I tried to gauge what people thought but you can never tell.
When the lights came back on, I was glad to hear the feedback. The feedback was positive and the documentary was at a stage where the feedback was very specific on what needed to be done. The relief on my face must have shown. For my first time directing I was nervous but am happy that it's finally paid off. Working alongside the editor to get the last phase of this work complete has been hard but to hear what needed to be done I knew it was going to be a day just tweaking the last pieces.
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Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
Friday, 13 July 2012
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Crit time, once again.
Again, crit screening approaches and time to hear feedback on the two projects I've been part of.
Firstly, Stripping for a living looked good on the big screen and it was nice to see it on a screen which isn't in a tiny edit room. Waiting for feedback was tense because of the huge effort the group has put in as a whole. Feedback felt more personal as we had so many let downs when making this documentary and seeing it into an edit felt like an amazing payoff. The feedback from the crit included positive comments about the shots used and general good consensus of it being a strong piece. The downfalls were about the contributors stories. I must admit I felt I needed to defend this as gaining access into a club to film is hard. Twofour did this over months with lawyers and for me and the director to gain access in 3 weeks and being students was a massive achievement. When we heard that home life would have made it better, I agree it would have made it more into a documentary as it is something that would probably be a taster tape in the industry but due to time constraints and lack of trust we made the best use of our time.
Finally, Young and Pissed didn't give the audience enough to make full comments as we only had the opening sequence. The feedback was again positive and constructive, it said it looked promising which is good because I have wondered what the outcome would be like due to time. However, some comments and questions threw the director as the storyline still doesn't seem set. Working on the edit with the team after the crit finally started to see something come together, we had to be more decisive as we are still way behind of schedule. Hopefully, tomorrow will bring something stronger to the table.
Firstly, Stripping for a living looked good on the big screen and it was nice to see it on a screen which isn't in a tiny edit room. Waiting for feedback was tense because of the huge effort the group has put in as a whole. Feedback felt more personal as we had so many let downs when making this documentary and seeing it into an edit felt like an amazing payoff. The feedback from the crit included positive comments about the shots used and general good consensus of it being a strong piece. The downfalls were about the contributors stories. I must admit I felt I needed to defend this as gaining access into a club to film is hard. Twofour did this over months with lawyers and for me and the director to gain access in 3 weeks and being students was a massive achievement. When we heard that home life would have made it better, I agree it would have made it more into a documentary as it is something that would probably be a taster tape in the industry but due to time constraints and lack of trust we made the best use of our time.
Finally, Young and Pissed didn't give the audience enough to make full comments as we only had the opening sequence. The feedback was again positive and constructive, it said it looked promising which is good because I have wondered what the outcome would be like due to time. However, some comments and questions threw the director as the storyline still doesn't seem set. Working on the edit with the team after the crit finally started to see something come together, we had to be more decisive as we are still way behind of schedule. Hopefully, tomorrow will bring something stronger to the table.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Crunch time- screening!
Just had our first crit screening, at first I was nervous having to show our 3 minute wonder especially as we had to stand up at the front of the cinema whilst it was played and feedback was given.
The feedback was better than I expected, the problems we now have to face before the final screening are things we knew or very small in comparison to the rest of work put in. It was very useful having Jeremy Gibson give feedback as it gave us a chance to have more feedback from someone else in the industry.
Also many thanks to him for being a guest lecture at the University, it allowed us the chance to hear about a programme that took Jeremy 7 years to deliver, Windfarm Wars. Hearing about the problems you can face whilst creating programmes and being able to ask questions about the industry has really helped.
To see Jeremy's blog about the show Windfarm Wars go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/windfarm-wars.shtml
The feedback was better than I expected, the problems we now have to face before the final screening are things we knew or very small in comparison to the rest of work put in. It was very useful having Jeremy Gibson give feedback as it gave us a chance to have more feedback from someone else in the industry.
Also many thanks to him for being a guest lecture at the University, it allowed us the chance to hear about a programme that took Jeremy 7 years to deliver, Windfarm Wars. Hearing about the problems you can face whilst creating programmes and being able to ask questions about the industry has really helped.
To see Jeremy's blog about the show Windfarm Wars go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/windfarm-wars.shtml
Monday, 9 January 2012
Time to edit!
Countdown to our first crit screening is approaching and in 3 days we have Jeremy Gibson who used to be head of documentaries for the BBC come to give us feedback.
I don't know whether I feel frightened or excited...a bit of mixed emotions!! But very worth while!
The editing process has been going well, Melissa is very effective. I had a slight panic due to being a little bit behind other groups but my confidence is back after seeing how much she has done in such little time and how good the quality is. Still some fine tuning but definitely got a structure starting to form.
I still don't understand how editors can edit for such long periods of time, the edit suite is starting to send me slightly crazy!!
I don't know whether I feel frightened or excited...a bit of mixed emotions!! But very worth while!
The editing process has been going well, Melissa is very effective. I had a slight panic due to being a little bit behind other groups but my confidence is back after seeing how much she has done in such little time and how good the quality is. Still some fine tuning but definitely got a structure starting to form.
I still don't understand how editors can edit for such long periods of time, the edit suite is starting to send me slightly crazy!!
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