Today was screening day for our portal movies. Here are my notes for each besides Hannah's since we didn't have time to get to that. I'll focus on the sound portion of each film since I played as sound director. I'll also include a brief self-criticism.
Say Cheese
Overall:
First minute was pretty good. There was genuine suspense.
Bernice randomly appeared.
Sarah was just there.
I don't really buy a person in crutches as a serial killer.
I wasn't really scared because it was just underdeveloped as a plot.
Needs to watch Silent Hill gameplay to learn how to build suspense and how to scare someone
Sound:
Don't like the music. I think it's from some 80s action TV show. Also the music doesn't seem to contribute to the suspense or really flow with the movie; as if it was a separate entity.
I think that for a thriller, the use of silence and diegetic sound would be really useful. Although there were a few diegetic sounds, it didn't help and were kind of useless.
The sound in the beginning were great with the crutches as well as the beeping with the camera. I thought silence was going to be a motif in the film but it wasn't and I was pretty disappointed when the music came on.
Babooshka (I think that's how you spell it)
Overall:
Plot didn't really make sense and underdeveloped.
Not many portals.
Sounds
Overall it's pretty flawed. The music, the song, I thought was good but inappropriate for this task.
The diegetic sound did no help at all, and if anything made it worse. For one, the scene where Chris was walking towards the camera, the sound made it seem like he was walking towards a camera (quiet when far away, louder when near), and it broke the illusion for me. Also, the scene with Xiang Yi running we can hear Camille's flip flops.
The sounds just seem flawed.
High Octane
Overall
"high artistic awareness". Really had a style.
pretty good story, maybe a bit underdeveloped.
The chase scenes weren't really thrilling.
Just a cool movie.
Sound:
Music appropriateness maybe could've been better.
Abstractness worked
I like the breathing sound and the zip
Overall pretty seamless
Clean sound at least.
Wabbit Hunt (self evaluation)
Overall (based on peer reaction and criticisms):
-Funny, a lot of good moments and a lot of laughter.
-"Good artistic awareness" in terms of emulating the Charlie Chaplin style.
-Subtitles were okay but maybe a bit unclear. Video quality maybe got in the way
-Overall concept (in terms of teleportation) was good. Simple and well executed.
-actors were good but debatable whether it could have maintained the humor if the audience didn't know who they were
Sound:
-some unnecessary sound effects
-inconsistency between silent scene and 'normal' scenes sometimes were weird but worked in the end
-music worked very well with the scenes; added the Charlie Chaplin effect
-some effects were too fake
-other sound effects were good; abstract and comedic
I was an IB learner:
Open Minded: Accepted criticism from peers about my work
Communicator: Communicated and discussed my thoughts about my peer's work
Reflective: Evaluated my own work fairly and honestly with plenty of justification
-actors were good but debatable whether it could have maintained the humor if the audience didn't know who they were
Sound:
-some unnecessary sound effects
-inconsistency between silent scene and 'normal' scenes sometimes were weird but worked in the end
-music worked very well with the scenes; added the Charlie Chaplin effect
-some effects were too fake
-other sound effects were good; abstract and comedic
I was an IB learner:
Open Minded: Accepted criticism from peers about my work
Communicator: Communicated and discussed my thoughts about my peer's work
Reflective: Evaluated my own work fairly and honestly with plenty of justification
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