Editing Demo Critique

1. Concept/ Script
I think my editing concept demos do a good job of demonstrating the concepts. They consist mostly of the concept with of course other concepts as well. A problem I had with the demos was time. We did not have much time to shoot because our schedules conflicted. Another problem was that we both had our own ideas and could not illustrate it to each other so it did not come out as well as it could of.

2. Camera Work
Our shots for the demos were average. If we had more time they could of came out better. A problem we had with the camera work was we thought that the shot was long enough but in reality when we went to edit it was difficult because we did not have enough shots. We crossed the 180 degree rule in the eye line match demo but it was not that bad. We did not have a very creative shot but the one I liked the most was the match action cut when Dee knocks over Tanya's books.

3. Edit
A challenge I had with the edit was not having enough shots to chose from. Another challenge was having boring angles because we did not focus on coverage. In the edit for our eyeline match demo I had to make sure where they looked was where the camera was going to. It was a difficult edit mainly because of the amount of shots we had.

Solitude

In the trailor Solitude I took 3 screenshots that I thought were interesting.

My first screenshot was a pitcure of a phone on a stool by itself. I picked this screenshot because it was isolated and the trailor was about how the characters were isolated from everyone and how their neighbors were dying. This is a good placement in the shot because it emphasizes the phone and what it does to the plot. When one of the characters pick up the phone the music and sound effects get more dramatic. This is a symbol of their isolation.

Another screenshot I took from the trailor was the empty highway. This is also a symbol of the characters isolation. I chose this screenshot becasue it is set up nicely; it does not emphasize anything but the empty highway. I also chose it because it makes the highway seem long and that the characters' help is far and it shows that barely anyone comes across this road. With the telephone poles going down the highway it creates an illusion that the highway is longer than it actually is.

I chose this screenshot because it makes the character seem inferior to what is after him. This is an interesting shot because in the trailor it does not reveal what the character is looking at so it makes the trailor more interesting and brings the audiences' attention in. This is a teaser shot and the dim lighting in this scene makes it mysterious. The dense shadows on the character's face gives this shot a sense of darkness which is good with horror films.