This week is all about getting comments and feedback from peers and tutors.

Having shown my rough edit and grade to the team, we were all pretty contended with what we have so far. Reza would continue with his foley experiments, while Trong and Helen would carry on with their zombie experiments.

I think what needs to be addressed now is our presentations and how we are going to screen our works, as all 4 of us have 4 different opinions on how things should be done, and things can get really complicated really fast. For one, from my understanding, we are required to screen a 22.5 seconds screener for the studio presentation, but since we’re collaborating as a group of 4, do we screen just 1 video with all our works? Or do we submit 4 individual versions of our work? The latter runs the risk of people seeing the same shots 4 times, just used differently at different lengths or in a  different sequence.

I might have mentioned in my earlier posts about collaborating with people comes with a tricky set of challenges and it’s all about compromising and accomodating. Seeing what can we give, or take. And I dare say I am really fortunate to have the most accomodating group mates, who have been such a blast to work with. I don’t think there was a point where either of us felt like we were being out of place or not having enough say in the matters. I’m not speaking on the behalf of everyone else, but it’s just my personal opinion.

Having said that, we did have our challenges. Trying to come up with a date that can fit everyone’s schedule was quite a challenge, half of the group have work 5 days a week, and the other half has other commitments outside of this studio. But, we managed to pull through and squeeze in a good 3 hours block for our second shoot at the carpark for some establishing shots prior to the zombie chase. Since we’ve already got the main bulk (the actual chase), we just need a few more shots of how our zombie started chasing the girl. Which we should think of how to compose the shots, now that we have gathered a little bit more experience shooting and playing our roles.

As for the rough edit, I gathered feed back with some of the shots looking a little out of place, and might need to continue tweaking the in and out points, before and after cuts, and several other kinks that should be rolled out. With the extra footage that we’ve planned to shoot, I think we’re getting closer to an actual piece of work we can say we’re happy with. Of course, I wouldn’t want to jinx it, just yet.