Peer evaluation of Juno

Group	How was the use of camera shots?	Use of editing?	Use of lighting?	Overall success of video
Lara + Dom	They have used a good variety of camera shots in their piece ensuring that they have covered all the necessary shots they needed.	their use of editing is good, i like how at the start they haven't got the video effect on but when the actual juno goes into the animation they have added the affect to make it look more true to life to the actual piece.	They have only used natural day light for their piece, which is appropriate for the task.	I think their version is good, however there are a few dodgy tracking shots and a bit of dodgy editing here and there, e.g. having a clip in the piece where the action dosent happen for the first few seconds.
Charlotte Benji Ben	There is a good variety of camera shots in the films but most of the time charlottes head was chopped off at the top.	I liked the use of transitions in their work but th3e titles at the begining brought down the overall effictive ness of the peice.	They have only used natural day light for their piece, which is appropriate for the task. however is certain places with the effect they have used aswell	overall their peice was effictive but certain shots seemed to be cut a bit shot at times.
Sarah, George Kaitylin	The first tacking shot is very steady, the zooming in and out also works effectivly, most of the other tracking shots are steady aswell.	The use of editing is good, however saome of the transitions distract from the actual clip and the ending seems to cut short when she is in the middle of the road.	They have only used natural day light for their piece, which is appropriate for the task. there dont seem to be any dark spots eaither	the overall peice is good and fits the orignail well, i like the attention to detail e.g. when kaitlyn runs past in the begining.
James C beky S Emma	Some nice steady tracking shots good variety of angles and frames used however one of the clips if very wonky	there are only straight cut transitions used wich is fine as it dosent distract from the clip but some of the clips arnt doing anything for a while before the action begins.	Just the stnadard use of daylight as sooting took place outside.	The video isnt bad but some shots are a bit dodgy like in one shot emma is walking directly towards a garage, they did attempt the high angle but unfortunatly it didnt turn out fantasticly well.

Juno Opening

Group- James B and Megan

What did you learn about filming and editing?
This was my first experience filming something like this so it was a steep learning curve for myself. I also learnt about using Adobe Premier, this included speeding up clips, shorting certain parts, different video transitions, shortening the audio track so that it fits in with the original as close as possible.

Did you find/use any premiere effects? If so, which ones and what was the effect?
Yes, we spent a lot of time tyring transitions to get it as close to the original as possible, the only effect we found was called 'push' which was used to transit to the foot scene. we also played around with the different video effects however no one of them produced the result we were looking for so decided to use the video how it was.

What went well in the filming and editing? How does it look compared with the original opening sequence?
Its very true to the original opening sequence, and looks pretty good, it is obiously missing the animated ascept of the original. the sound track fits the video well and starts at the same place as the orignail.

What could have gone better with the filming and editing?
Some of the camera work is a bit shaky, we also missed a scene out when filming and the end shot is from the back rather than the frount.

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Institutions

Institutions H/W

Oppositional and preffered readings

 

 

Preferred Reading:

This is a poster promoting the film reservoir  dogs. is is about a group of people who are working together or there is one weak member of the group as the crayons are together but they are starting to fall over. this could represent how one members actions effect the rest of the group.

Oppositional reading:

Its a children's film or is aimed at a younger audience, this is shown through the use of the crayons on the poster.

Narrative

Resident Evil: After Life

Enigma Code:

• why is it raining?
• Why are we being shown these red shoes?
• Why are the Umbrellas all similar colours?
• why is the girl just standing there in the rain?
• Who is this girl?
• why are the people simply walking round her?
• who is the guy we are introduced to?
• why does she attach him? / bite his neck?
• Why are the lights going out?

Action Code

• the people walking
• eye contact with man, whats about to happen?
• Slow turn on the head, whats about to happen?
• girl throwing herself at him to attack him
• Mass Hysteria of people after attack
• fast camera pan upwards

Symbolic/Semiotic Code

• Rain, sadness, like crying
• Red Shoes, danger blood
• Stripy tights, set in her ways, looking for someone to attack / straight to the point
• Red Nail varnish, emphasis on danger
• Studs on hand bag, violence
• Red Umbrella, subtle danger notations
• Red umbrella in shot again, emphasis on danger
• Blue section on dress, linking with rain / tranquillity at the start
• Red Jacket, another danger notation
• Red umbrella in shot again, emphasis of danger again
• woman wearing red in background, danger hint
• In final pan up main colours of umbrellas are blue and red, linking to the colours that she is wearing, links the two parts of the opening sequence together (peaceful start with violent ending)

Poster Semiotics

The Film poster is divided into 4 different horizontal sections each with its own colour. the mains from the cast are all introduced in this poster and are almost paired up as they would be in the film itself. Also as the sections are on on top of the other so this could suggest a hiracry of people in the film. The use of the 3 colours here could represent how each on the character is going to be, e.g. Blue background for tranquil / calm characters with the characters in front of the red background could be the more aggressive / dangerous characters in the film.

in the Red background there is an outline of a Indian styled building. as this outline is in the red section of the poster it could represent how this location causes pain or is the site of pain in the film.

there is also evidence of a love story in the film were the couple are on the motorbike and the way she is holding on to him.