Evaluating Peer Reviews

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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 brand new film opener!

What specific elements of the film opening did you like?

Was there anything that left you confused? (be specific)

What suggestions do you have for changes?

There was very good editing that made it feel like a real movie opener.

No

Have more talking parts in the next one.

I really liked the editing , music , and title cards throughout the film

No nothing left me confused

I recommend that film is longer to meet the 2 minute mark by adding some more clips that relate to the story or making the scenes longer

They had really good camera angles and the editing was nice.

I am confused about the story. I am not sure what they were going for. The video is vague and it does not really make sense.

They should make the video longer and to make it more specific on what the genre is and what the story is supposed to be about. They could make it a little more interesting as well.

I liked the camera shots! They included a variety of different shots which made it interesting to look at. I also thought the music was cool and built suspense. Good job!

The overall format of the video made it seem more like a movie trailer rather than the opening of the actual film -- especially with the text/captions.

The biggest thing would be to make it more focused on it looking like the opening to a film -- possibly changing the transitions and captions could help clear this up. Also, there were times when the shots were a little blurry (specifically when showing the text messages on the phone). To improve, it might help to re-film some shots to make the quality a little better.

I liked how the opener cut from the phone, to the girls, to the moving car

I'm not sure what the mission was, and while I understood the film opener I think by creating more context the viewer would better understand

Add more context, create a villain maybe and add their pov

I liked the suspenseful music and the way the way I kept guessing what was going to happen next

I think the storyline was confusing, it didn't quite make sense, but maybe that is the point. I think they need to add more storyline, and that would def be possible seeing they only have 57 seconds of filming

Add more clips to develop the storyline, and also instead of adding the text to show the reader what is happening ( a voiceover might be better)

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