Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Task Six:Creating a Montage

Our task is to create a montage in the style of Hollywood or Soviet. The montage that the group decided on is the Hollywood Montage, and it had to be based on a school day.


Synopsis
In this task we basically went to different lessons, where Daniel is chosen to act as a misbehaving student in the first lesson. This is why he will be on the phone as he does not understand the work so he then walks out the class. A further point is that when I am sat in the second lesson I will be taking my time to finish the work given, but Daniel is not misbehaving in the second lesson because we want to make the audience think for themselves that maybe he prefers a certain subject so he is behaving. Yet he is going to be very impatient to leave the lesson as he will be starving thus he will be almost running out of the class in time for lunchtime. Afterwards we show that Daniel will have lunch and then towards the end of the PE lesson he will be rushing to complete his last lap and meet up with me to leave the school. However, I leave the begin making my way out of school and the teacher catches up with us so that Daniel attends his detention.

                       

Evaluation
The only advantage of this montage video is a section of the music which fits within the clip of when Daniel is running around for the PE lesson. Yet there were many disadvantages, one of them I think is that the music choice was wrong. Another is that there was a change in lighting after Daniel had looked at the clock. Although a montage is not supposed to to be continuous the task had specified a school day, so due to the clothes changing it will not be shown across to the viewers as one school day packed into a few seconds, instead it could be perceived as two separate days. Also when me and Daniel are going to the next lesson where we are walking in the corridor, yet a bit of a jerky jump happens. So while editing to me it looked as if the position matched from the two clips combined, but it did not look as I wanted it to be as well as this there were a slight tilt from the camera. Being too critical I thought there was no need for the camera to be moving when Daniel was eating. Last of the disadvantages is that there whole group did not agree on a lot of things such as me and Daniel were supposed to leave the school together, however at the last minute it was decided by two members of the group that Basra should be involved. Therefore, Daniel gets called back for his detention, because as shown in the first lesson Daniel was on his phone. Hence I turn awkwardly to see that something else has occurred. The sorts of things which I would like to improve if there were a chance to make another or the same montage is to film quickly but accurately to avoid the situation of the clothes changing. Another point is that even though we had our storyboard due to the changes, before hand we will need to know how and what gets recorded for the video. Additionally, the change in lighting could have been corrected if I tried with colour correction but there still may not have been any change. Finally, the task as well as the video was not successful yet at the same time it was, due to the fact that the outcome of a school day was achieved by the location.


The actual montage above is still similar to the draft but the only changes now is that it does not show a change in angle when Daniel is having his lunch. In addition, it shows a faster speed to indicate everything which was happening in a school day, although it does seem slightly strange as no one would walk or do something as quick as shown in the video. In addition, at the end I improved the clip by adding a title to show that there are two things possible to happen which is the fact that we could have gone home, but Daniel has detention as he has not completed his work in the first lesson.

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