grace johansson main task as media first cut

First Cut Comments:

Whilst doing the first edit and cut of my social realism introduction I noticed some successes and some things I need to improve in my introduction to help me achieve a better grade.

A success of my first edit of the main task was that the low - key lighting created a sad and dark mood and helped to set the tone of my intro, the contrast between the low - key lighting inside the house and the high - key lighting outside of the house shows the darkness and anxiousness that lingers in her home and that there is a whole world full of opportunities and brightness just outside of her home that her fear is stopping her from entering. The shots that have been created fit with my theme and came out mostly how I wanted them to which is a success and I got a good cut for the match on action which was good because I was worried it wouldn't work very well.

There were issues I noticed when I was going through the footage I had collected, one of those was the amount of space within the frame, the camera I used had a square LCD screen, whereas the video films in widescreen, so when I started filming the frame cut off some of the footage because it could not show widescreen footage on a square screen. This was a problem because when I wanted to film a shot it was difficult for me to tell whether or not the whole space would be in the frame. Another issue and improvement I needed to make was the shots in-between moments of action, there are some shots in the bedroom and then it cuts straight to the downstairs which doesn't make any sense because she would not just appear there magically from upstairs to downstairs. The tripod was a struggle for me personally because I had trouble with the leaver, whilst filming the leaver would get stuck when I tried to pan or create movement which made it harder to get the shots I needed.