Today we had a rough cut viewing of the VT edits with Helen. We filmed the VTs on Monday and Thursday and since then I have been on my work placement for the professional practice unit. Therefore, I haven't been able to sit with Laura and the edit for the viewing. However, she had a shot list for the trailer to give her a rough idea. Rosie was also given the shot list for the Mockumentary and they worked on the Trivia edit together.
I was a bit apprehensive to watch the VTs for the first time. They had just been cut together at this stage with no sound design. Helen gave us some positive feedback regarding Darren as the character of Norman. However, she suggested that we reshoot footage for all of the VTs to get better coverage and allow for edit changes. The mockumentary seemed too long at 3 1/2 minutes as there wasn't enough content to sustain that length of time. Helen also highlighted that the pace was too slow, with some elements being dragged out for too long. In terms of the one take style, Helen suggested we changed this as it made the film too simple and didn't show enough skill. Therefore, we have decided to include a second camera which will account for any cutaways we use, making it a more dramatic piece rather than just actuality.
For the trailer, there was good feedback regarding the montage section, which I would like to keep. However, the duration and speed of the montage was much more dragged out in the rough cut and for the final edit this is something that I will adapt to be much more snappy and fast paced. Other sequences need to be reshot to ensure there are enough close ups to cut to.
Lastly the trivia feedback, which was mixed. Helen was pleased with some of the shots but agreed that we needed to reshoot some of the studio and gallery shots in order to make it more dynamic and give us other edit options. There were a few issues with the variety of shots, which is something we will make sure we get during the rehearsal with George. Overall, we received mixed feedback regarding the VTs at their current stage of the edits but we just need to ensure we get plenty of extra footage and change/increase the shot types we have to build on the quality of the final VTs.
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