Peer Review

On Monday, everyone walked into class to read the list of groups and who was assigned to who. I approached my classmate, Ambi, and she airdropped me her video. First thing I noticed was that the length was longer than the original time; 22 seconds more than the limit. If I had to choose one thing that I liked about the film, it would be the beginning scene. This is where it went from a zoom into a close up of the 2 actors’ faces. The group decided to start their final task with an eye-line match. The example is where the kidnappers were looking through the bookcase and the camera cuts to reveal that they were looking at a girl. It leaves the audience wondering what these boys are looking at, and then the camera is in their perspective to later show them. This helps develop a mysterious mood for the rest of the opening sequence. One thing I would suggest to the group is to edit the clips so that transitions are more smooth. Also, they might need to re shoot some scenes because the audio does not match the video. The reason for editing is because there will be a shot of a setting and followed up by another clip of the same shot. It is not very easy to explain, but at the end of one scene,  the girl will be entering her car and closing the door behind her. Then in the next scene, she is in the car closing her door. This could be edited better, by cutting the scene before at the right time, and it leads to her closing the door in the scene after. In order to shorten time, the group may need to cut the scenes shorter, for example, the multiple long shots of the actors walking. That is unnecessary time used of just people walking for 20 seconds. Also the dialogue is very quiet, it needs to be louder for the audience to hear. The question was to make one suggestion, but I needed to make more in order for them to get a good score on their assignment. The rest of my review can be seen in the pictures below.