Rough Cut Refelction

As a classroom activity, Mr. Engle has us do a self reflection on our rough cut, and also had us do a peer evaluation of our rough cut. Below is my self reflection, followed by the peer evaluation ⤋⤋

Self-Reflection:

Continuity

Our video has decent continuity over all, however I did notice that there was a random, unnecessary jump-cut of our actor going from the bedroom to the bathroom without any context. This can be confusing to the audience when watching and definitely will be fixed later on during re-shooting.

Film Opening

Our video is not quite readable as a film opening... yet. This is because, for one, we have not cut our clips in the right places yet. We simply placed our lengthy clips into the rough cut without cutting them down to the necessary length yet, so it appears to be very drawn out. Also, it is supposed to be a title sequence. But we have no titles. Once we get our title card and credits placed in, it will become more readable as a film opening. Also, our sound has not been correctly placed in yet, so the video appears slightly quiet and the sound seems asynchronous at times.

Genre 

It is fairly obvious that our video falls within the thriller genre. We demonstrated many thriller genre conventions in our opening, such as low key lighting, a sense of isolation, and creepy beings such as the female figure who appears behind Lionel, giving an eerie vibe.

Peer Evaluation: 

Partner suggestions (below are the questions I asked my peers, and their responses).

Whats the setting (time and place?): A motel, late at night, coming back from work, sketched out by the creepy room.

Who are the characters?: Robert, protagonist, then the creepy female character in the background.

What is movie going to be about? How can you tell?: Thinks the female character is supposed to be demonic or possessed based on how she is portrayed/hair on the face.

To what extent is it readable as a film opening?: Very readable already, when adding titles it will be even more obvious as a film opening.

To what extent is it readable as a thriller film?: Yes very obvious that it's a thriller.

How might the clarity of meaning in the video be improved?: Cut down the length of the shots a lot, but the shots used were very creative.

Seen below is my rough cut. My very ROUGH cut.