Peer Review

Today we did a peer review for our films. Stephanie and I downloaded our opening onto a flash drive and gave it to the group that was assigned to review ours. The person who we were assigned to review, Michele gave us her flash drive but the video didn't show up on our computer. So we gave it back to her and told her the issue. We ended up reviewing another group's video instead. We were able to watch their video on our computer so we decided to ask Michele if we could try and load up her video again. We were able to get the video to show up on the computer. It didn't take long to realize that her video needed a lot of work. We first noticed that the video was over five minutes long. We also saw that whenever she propped up the camera to record a scene it was always in a spot where an object was covering some of the view.

At first, there seemed to be a plot developing because the main character was packing a suitcase. But as the video went on, Stephanie and I became unsure of what the story was because we couldn't hear the dialogue going on in the scenes because the background music was too loud. All we gathered from what we watched was that a girl was packing her bags to go somewhere. A way Michele could've improved the sound quality was that she could lower the background music's audio when the characters were talking. Her transitions were also very choppy. We believed that Michele didn't finish editing her movie because whenever she finished a take, she didn't cut out the parts where she went to go turn off the camera. She also had no titles in the opening. The lighting was bad when she recorded scenes on her front porch; she could improve the lighting by turning on the porch lights. In some scenes we could see the camera in the background. Stephanie and I liked the choice of background music but one suggestion we had was that Michele should just finish editing her opening.