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Just Pizza Final Draft

Comments and Suggestions

This post is from Joselyn and John.
The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from Kaycee and Kelsey and Michaela C. and Ashley T. Kaycee/Kelsey told us that the music worked well in the beginning, and that was helpful because it showed us that we were able to create the mood that we were going for. In addition, Michaela/Ashley told us that the pan of the the last slice was very effective, and that helped us see that certain shots help build and emphasize certain points.

The two best suggestions we got were from Kaycee/Kelsey and Chris/Brad.

Kaycee/Kelsey suggested that we find a way to make the pizza not disappear in the light. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to use another clip that focuses on the pizza and then cut back to Jacob giving the pizza.

Chris/Brad suggested that we cite our sources. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is by finishing our credits.

Positive comments

We especially like the pan-over of the pizza and table at the beginning of the video because is helped emphasize the idea of the last peice of pizza.-Michaela C. and Ashely T.

What we liked best was the use of the house as a background and the edits- Brad and Chris

The music was worked well in the beginning when they were watching tv; it created a laid back feeling.-Kelsey and Kaycee

We also like the close up of both guys when they are confused about hearing the voice, and the high angle of them looking around the room-Kelsey and Kaycee

We especially like the close up shot of John on the floor because it showed that Jake won the pizza-Isaiah and Cesar

We especially like the close up shot of john on the floor beacause it helped emphasize that they had just fought. –Michaela and Cole

Suggestions

We would just suggest shortening the fade-out clip after the fight-Michaela C. and Ashely T.

You could add to the resolution by showing some more facial expression, this would help us see how they feel about giving/recieving the pizza.-Chris and Brad

Our stongest suggestion is somehow fixing the disappearing pizza when jacob is holding it at the end.-Kelsey and Kaycee

cite your sources because you can get into trouble for that-chris and brad

John, Jacob, Joselyn, Morgan

Rough Draft: Just Pizza

John and Jacob
1) What value are you trying to represent?
-In our video, our group tried to represent the value of sharing

2) What do you think your group has done well?
-I think our group did well on composing the shots from the "slap" to the "arguement"

3) What do you still need to complete?
-We still need to finish editing sound and music and adding the ending and credits.

4) What are you most in need of feedback about? (We want to know if..., We're wondering if this camera angle worked when...etc.)
-We want to know if our group portrayed sharing well without having to announce the value with a title

5) Identify a challenge your group discovered and faced in creating the film. Focus on a challenge about how to best tell your story. Describe how you dealt with that challenge, including discussions you had, things you tried and decided to leave out, and what you ultimately did to address it.
-We were missing a group memeber when we started filming, there were inadvertant environmental factors such as unneccessary amount of sunlight.
We just left the sun light in the film but during it we tried our best to stay out of the it as much as possible.

Over The Shoulder Exercise

When doing this short over the shoulder exercise, our group decided on how to act out the scriipt. We decided practicing the acting can lead to how we can plan the location and the shots. Of course there were other groups filming around us and we were limited in location so we just filmed the best way could. When following the rule of thirds, I thought it was an ok job. We didnt hit the exact "sweet" spots of the grid but it followed the principle ok. The over the shoulder shots help show a real conversation and the appearance of each character as they talked. Given the parameters of the location and the time we had to practice the script, the conversation came out pretty well. The compostion isn't up to par but the conversation between Jacob and Morgan turned out better than expected. Sicne there wasn't so much time to practice the characters in the script we gave the tone as a suprise and saracasm towards the end. When Jacob asks "enough to?" we implied we would use the money for entertainment i.e. food, games, party, etc. Then Morgan says it's meant for college and the left Jacob to sarcastically say "yea". When using over the shoulder shots is hepls show a conversation in real time and allows to show the reactions of each character as they say their dialogue.

Holiday Video

Learning how to use the green screen to make our video look as good as possible was a challenge for me and Ryan, seeing that I was going to leave for the Philippines in only a week. That would leave Ryan to finish what was left of the project. Luckily we finished soon with the first run of footage taken. I learned to use animated text to flow in the last bits of our product to add some "flavor", if you will, to our video. If me and Ryan had more time to film and edit the final part instead of the animated text we could of done even more interesting things to make it even better. I would say the most challenging aspect of this project was the fact that I was leaving school early and we were really checking the clock. But even then we finished editing the entire video before most of the other groups. I felt we did a good job in gathering the information and using it as an advantage. We did so with the teleporting transition between holidays. It was a gret idea that kept the video fun and positive, especially since it's the holidays. What i might have done differently? I liked how one group used cell phones to tell each other how they celebrated their holidays. It seemed more serious, which is good in many cases. But comedy was a good suit me and Ryan used well. We split the responsiblities of the project in half. We would switch back and forth because we would share our ideas and take control to easily show what we were trying to represent. I searched for music but to no avail. Ryan found the perfect music to our video in my opinion. I think me and Ryan had difficulties due to the fact that I was leaving soon and that Ryan had to leave to work for BLT. But we've overcome it and did a pretty good job. If I was given another chance to this project over again, I wouldn't know what to change honestly. I liked the ideas of other groups but it's there ideas. To me it just means for me to work harder and help my group create a great video. I had fun working with Ryan, even if he transferred to first block, I look forward to the next projects that await our class.