Please watch the posted full critique of all your works. And then take the time to review each others work and reflect on what your class mates have done. Then in one post write a paragraph (minimum) comment on each others work. Please do not say "I agree with sos and so that..." or simply that you like this and this and this and not that and that and that. Be considered in what you say trying to give good guidance and feedback.
5 comments:
After watching the critique video I was extremely surprised at how far off my expectations were of what exactly Raph wanted for this assignment. Truth be told, I just had no idea that all he wanted us to do was place ourselves into a scene/event in a movie. Don't get me wrong, I realize that this idea was discussed, but this is not what I perceived as the main objective or goal in this assignment. Also, after watching everyone else's works, I believe that a majority of the other students that, as Raph stated, would expect to be successful with this assignment were actually not. If I had to guess the majority of other students were in the same boat as me, in that it's not like we knew the main goal of the assignment and failed trying to achieve that goal, but rather had a different idea of what the goal was and thus came up with a different final outcome.
I tried to figure out why I had such a wrong idea of what was expected of this assignment so I went back to the 430 main page and re-read the information on the assignment. In the second paragraph it states :
"Among the Russian filmmaking pioneers was Sergei Eisenstein, who believed that montage could convey powerful ideas and concepts; unlike the French idea of montage as simply cutting clips or sequences together into a scene, he proposed a more powerful effect from a unique use of montage. He saw that when two individual shots or clips, each with a discrete meaning, collided (were cut together, i.e., montage), from this collision of independent (Eisenstein, 1969) a third meaning, separate from the two can be inferred. "
And in the next paragraph I found this:
"American filmmaker Maya Deren pushed the creative use of montage further in her highly stylized and alternative form of cinematic storytelling. She used montage to juxtapose different narrative story-lines and edit together dramatically different scenes to create extraordinary shifts in time and place."
So I guess as I look back as I began to brainstorm about this assignment, I guess this is just some of the information that I believe led me in the wrong direction. The meaning I got from these sentences were that these filmmakers were taking different clips and editing them together to seem as though they were "one." And maybe that is exactly what they mean, I guess I just don't understand why any of this information (i.e. "... edit together dramatically different scenes") would be talked about before the assignment if in actuality all what we were really supposed to do was create very alike scenes to create something that literally places ourselves in that scene. So I'm not sure if anyone else feels the same way, but I just felt like "venting" all of this because I was kind of bummed that I did the project with the wrong goals in mind. I think Raph stated that we would all have a chance to do re-do this assignment and I already know that I have something completely different in mind.
So now, after knowing what the correct goals and objectives of this assignment are, I'll have to agree with Raph and say that Elana's piece was the most successful. Just the simple camera angles and closeups moved the continuity of the piece very well. Also the color correction was done very well.
Failure! That is me! I clearly made a cop-out piece and am quite embarrassed. Here was an opportunity to do something creative and I really failed.
Elana, what can anyone say about your piece? It was fantastic! You really had a grasp on what the assignment called for- your piece can only be used as inspiration for everyone else that plans on remaking theirs.
And that is something I would like to comment about, these critiques. It's very hard to put yourself and your work out there, but to be inspired or inspiring amongst your peers is a great thing. I really enjoy the critiques and I wish we could do that more often and be honest with each others work. I remember these moments of critique during 304 when we finally started being honest with each other and great conversation came out of it. We all became comfortable with each other and started saying how we really felt about one another's work- it only inspires and moves us forward to doing great work.
Mine was shite, lame, etc. I know that. I plan to completely redo the piece.
Elana, your work inspired me to do great in this assignment.
I found that the critique was very helpful in redefining what the project was supposed to be, I guess when I went into the project I was confused about what exactly was being looked for. Now knowing that the piece was supposed to follow more of the structure of the narrative, think I will eventually redo the project so that it stays more focused on the goal of the project.
I think that Elanas project was really well done, the colorization really helped in solidifying the connection of your footage and the footage of the film. Overall I think that the project was a very interesting challenge that really pushed on the conceptual side of how to splice video together.
Thank you guys, for your comments! When I first heard about this assignment I was pretty excited, but when I actually started to work on it I was so afraid that it wouldn't work out. If I had time to do it over again, I'd probably work to pay more attention to the set in the footage from the actual movie, because there are places where it doesn't match up. Stephen, I agree with you completely, that it is so hard to just put yourself out there and be confident in your work, but all of your comments really helped me, and I thank you so much for them.
While watching the videos, I noticed that a lot of people used montage not so much to tell a story as to get an idea across, like Brian's piece. It was very artistic, and while it wasn't narrative, I thought it was well done. I also liked Kory's piece, which did tell a story, though without any context perhaps it was unclear as to what was actually happening in the montage. I also enjoyed watching Stephen's take off of The Office, though as someone who has never seen ANY footage from that show, I couldn't tell what everything was referring to.
While I was discussing with other classmates the A3 assignment, I felt a bit offended when a few individuals had the audacity to tell me that I did the assignment wrong and that they were right. The assignment told us to use others footage and put ourselves in, creating a narrative fiction.
I feel that my piece strongly got the assignment, and I avoided commercial footage for an obvious reason, to not appear unoriginal. Maybe I'm a bit standoffish, but I truly support my own piece in this matter.
Kory- As much as I love the Big Lebowski, you could've shortened yours by almost 30 seconds to achieve a much stronger product. Remember, make everything you can as short as possible without losing your message. I dunno, I just wanted to hit you with pool cues after a while. Haha.
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