Kayla's AICE Media Studies Blog

    https://youtu.be/pCNuDmDEOYI  We made it! This is the final cut of my movie opener. After reading through my peer reviews, and after careful consideration I decided to completely redo my opener, and change the genre to a documentary instead of an action movie. I did this because I had trouble coming up with a plot for an action movie since I only had myself and my friend to work with. I could also incorporate more dialogue this way, as a documentary focuses a lot on dialogue. This made our opportunities for shooting very limited.  I decided t make an opening to a documentary about a girl that has a Diet Coke addiction. In the opening scene I interview Kayla, her doctor, and Kayla's grandmother. 

  Film #4 Peer Reviews Summary & What I learned: While my film had good editing techniques, incorporated several different camera angles, music and sound effects, my peers felt that my movie opener lacked a plot, failed to meet the time requirement, and left them feeling like it was more of a trailer than a opener to a movie itself. My peers suggested that my final draft include more dialogue, that it should be longer,  focus on making it look more of an opener rather than a trailer, adding context to the clips, and making the storyline more clear. I enjoyed reading my peer reviews and found them helpful. I knew that it was on the shorter side, so I expected comments about that. I feel that I was a little confused on how to come up with the video, so it came off as more of a trailer than a movie opening scene. As a result, I have decided to take that information and start completely over with my opener. I will take into consideration my peer reviews and come back with a ...