Good Form – Assessment Task 1
We created two versions of the scene. My reflection will focus on the second one.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B32yH54QH6CEYkF6VUJ3M2w4WE0
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx2nOPt1WVq8Ym9McWVkZlduSDA
One moment I think works well is the ending as Matt and Oliver began to improvise a way of wrapping up the conversation by repeating “yeah” until they were face to face. This allowed me to ratchet up the pace of the cuts between shots to create a fast and slightly disorientating finale, heightening the humour as they repeat their appreciation for a cat playing Uptown Funk on a piano.
One moment I think did not work well was the cut-away to Matt saying “Whatever” from another room, playing with a touchscreen because the way the conversation flowed and was edited together did not give the moment enough time to breathe and for the audience to fully take a moment to understand that Matt was suddenly in another room and still responding to the conversation.
If I were to repeat the exercise, I would like to have more time to have the actors memorise their lines. This would help in a few ways, one being that they would not have to look down at their scripts while shooting. Another way this would help is that by familiarising themselves with the core of the script, they would have the ability to improvise and change up their delivery to create different comedic approaches to line delivery. I would also use more time to use a better camera and a tripod, to set up a shot-reverse-shot so we could do multiple takes to allow for a more diverse selection in the edit bay.
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