Scavanger Hunt Redo

Professor Farhat:

“Jesse, Chris and Sam,
I understand that you first made the video with the impression that it had to be one single story. I will give you my comments regardless of that, for the purpose of this exercise. I see that you have put extra effort into editing a 2nd video and will take that into consideration.

-Your first shot works.
-As mentioned in class your 2nd shot is too wide to be a medium shot and I would rather you chose colors that are saturated in your subject instead of just increasing the saturation in the camera or in post.
-Same thing for your 3rd shot, it starts by being a Full shot or Wide shot and then transitions into a Medium shot at best but it’s nowhere near a Medium Close Up
-your 4th shot is good as well, but why not cut before the camera gets all shaky?
-5th shot is good, but again, you should have cut before the camera starts to move.
-6th shot works very well.
-7th shot works.
Overall good job.
Total: 85+ 3 pts for creating the 2nd video = 88/100″

Today I found out that my group had followed your recommendations and recut the video.  They just neglected to tell me.  But that’s not what frustrates me.  What makes me mad is that they didn’t follow my suggestions for different shots to use.  So here’s the recut project my group did, along with two shots that I would have used if I had the footage (the tape and digital copies are at Jesse’s apartment).

Here is the revised video:

Here’s a backup link: http://www.youtube.com/user/samtnp#p/u/2/cLt4HbI1yXg

Here are my edits:

2nd:  I think this is mislabeled– I know Jesse put a color filter on it, but I don’t think its that saturated.  I would have gone with the shot at 1:40 on this video.  I would have labeled it as “Pan. Perspective (Chris looking down before jumping)”.

Backup Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/samtnp#p/u/4/FwbQBp6ZemM

3rd: If I had the footage, I would cut the beginning and very end of this footage, so that the camera wouldn’t move.  I have no idea what that’s there.  I also think it’s a little bit closer than a regular medium close-up, its more like a medium close-up plus.

6th:  In the “revised assignment”, the shot doesn’t look like a low-angle shot.  When filming, we were down a flight of steps, but it didn’t translate to camera.  A good example of a low angle shot is at :16 in this video, which we submitted for the narrative-version of this project.

Backup link:  http://www.youtube.com/user/samtnp#p/u/4/FwbQBp6ZemM

That’s all I have to say for now.