Reflection

Now that we have reshot our detective’s office scenes at Taylor’s mom’s work, I feel a lot more relieved. We were both really worried about the state of our rough cut because it really lacked in continuity and it just wasn’t the look that we were going for. We researched a lot more about genre conventions and the characteristics of other films in the genres that we are doing and now we feel more confident about our ability to convey meaning through cinematography and mise-en-scene. Our next course of action is the editing phase. This is an extremely important part of our project because editing can make or break the film. If our newer cut turns out anything like our old one, we will be super disappointed, so we are really hoping that this phase of editing will go a lot more smoothly with the newer clips.

My blog posts on the other hand…. that’s another story. It has been really hard to keep up with the blog posts and the different stages that we are supposed to be writing about because I just have so many other things on my plate. But I am slowly trying to start getting back into writing them as we further along our title sequence process.

Pretty soon we are going to be done with this project. I have learned a lot from this experience and I am really glad that we went through every step that we have, despite the numerous obstacles and hardships. It has taught us a lot about the filmmaking process and this hands-on experience has offered us so much more knowledge about what it takes to make a film and effectively establish a desired meaning through mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound.