TODAYS LESSON, RECORDED PRESENTING

VIDEO PROJECT PRESENTATION 1 from fLIX.TV on Vimeo.

Fair to say it didn't go so well.
Fair to say we've established I'm a terrible group speaker.
I may have rambled, not looked at the audience or camera and generally done a rubbish job, but it's the concept that counts right? To be completely honest I thought my prezi was detailed and provided a lot of useful information about our project, I probably just didn't express that particularly well...
Definitely hoping the next presentation goes better..I wouldn't count on it.


Anyway, today was in fact extremely successful.. in a way, as we received lots of useful feedback, some positive, some critical but thats exactly what we hoped for!


The rest of our class suggested that perhaps we weren't making the best choice with our setting idea, suggesting that it will be busy and the old fashion - film noir setting would be ruined. We will without a doubt take this on board, one of our solutions was to go early morning when it was quiet - we thought this would also be nice lighting maybe making it seem late evening which is was we initially wanted. They also suggested that our scenes atmosphere would be ruined by modern shop displays - our answer to this was to try and work our camera angels so these aren't visible, although we are quite confident that our location doesn't contain many modern stores.
 We also gave a brief overview of our plot and narrative, in which we explained how we would break and follow some conventions to follow a more modern direction, such as experimental camera angels. We will follow out some more research to discover whether these decisions appeal to our target audience. After watching other groups presentations it was clear our group was full of some really brilliant ideas! I offered positive feedback, and also asked insightful questions, for instance I was interested in ways other groups planned to follow or break conventions, a couple of their ideas were to alter the colouring - changing the traditional black and white - eg. change saturation. Some groups were extreme on breaking conventions, opting for a neo-noir OTS, this is a contrast to my groups subtle way of breaking them. We're in favour of our own subtleness, as we're fond of traditional film noir and would quite like to follow conventions, in particular the black and white high contrast, dim and mysterious lighting, 

This particular photograph from; 

GenaroFlacoArroyo, 

a cinematographer provides me with much inspiration as how we want the colours of our film opening to look, it's an atmospheric control of lighting which can in turn control how the audience feels. 

aswell as these conventions we will also include a romantic/criminal story line which involves an anti-hero and femme fatale.