We were praised for the film's simplicity and for how we took a risk using just the photo for the whole film - keeping the viewer's interest through the story and use of sound. Debbie praised the changes we had made to the music track and the effectiveness of the sound-scape. When listening back to the film in the lecture hall, many of the sounds we had included were lost and inaudible, but after listening back to it through headphones they are much more clearer.
Another minor criticism was that the voice-over starts a beat too soon in the film, not giving the audience enough time to orientate themselves to what they are seeing and hearing. This was due to us trying to cut down the film to fit within roughly two minutes, whereas now we are aware that some other documents said 2-3 minutes, which would've given more opportunity to improve pacing. Also, some of the voice-over near the beginning was hard to hear, which we were aware of and had tried our best to repair through EQ and editing, but after that point they said it didn't matter as the rest of the story was coherent.
Our classmates had interesting suggestions for the longer film, some of which we had already considered and some which we hadn't. We spoke about our difficulty finding contributors for the longer film and our plans as a last resort to use photos and interviews rather than footage. Tyler said that if we were to go with that approach then we would need to have the whole film one way or the other, which we agreed with. Dom suggested for the footage we shoot in their houses that we could lock-off the shot like a living photograph, which is a good idea that we may consider.
Following the presentation we will continue to follow up leads over the weekend with the aim of getting photos and confirming contributors into the next week.
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