AS Thriller Blog Homework

I thought overall the finshed piece of footage was quite good. There were bits i'd have take away or changed, but generally it wasn't horrible. The blog, on the other hand, is very thin. There are only about 16 posts between a group of 3/4, which, to be honest is pitiful as that's either 4 or 5 posts per person, dependsing on the size of the group for the entire project. I have this many posts on my blog and i don't even kow what kind of film i'm making!

However, there are quite a few videos on the blog and it is all explained extremely well, so they obviously knew what they were trying to do, because of the detail they went into. There are different posts for each stage of the process, shooting, editing, soundtrack, etc. The process was planned well, there is even a list of what shots they are doing in which order so anyone reading can get an idea of what the film will e without watching it, or seeing how it ends without it being finished.

Unfortunately, they let themselves down by claiming John McLane was going to be starring in their film, which he clearly isn't, and i somehow doubt one of the people in their group had that name. If he does, cool, but it's not a good idea to put real stars names in your movie. Another problem is the name "Seymour Butts" They have clearly tried to be funny by adding this name, but it appears immature and they should lose marks for it.

I don't like the start of the film. The way they have cut between shots of the eye looks a mess and i'm not entirely sure what they were trying to achieve by doing it. It just looks like they were editing and just randomly clicked the cut button and stuck the together. I do like the bit showing the drugs, the fire and the clock though, i think that worked very well, any quicker an it would have been too quick to see what was going on, and much slower and the effect would have been lost. That part i do like. My main problem, however is it's not much of an opening sequence. You see him get up, go to the bathroom and for some reason he changes into a different person, then he goes and lays down on the bench again wile the screen fades to black and the title appears. To me, this just seems like a long film condensed into 2 minutes, as there doesn't appear to be much further the film can go. The guy got up, did something and went back. That's a beggining, middle and end right there, what else is there to do?

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