Week of March 10th

This week we screened our rough cut for the class and received a significant amount of feedback, some we are going to try to incorporate and some we are not. We will edit again on Saturday and I am going to contact Whitney to see if she might be available to come into the edit lab to work along side us, so we can describe the changes we are looking for her to make while we are right there over her shoulder with the hopes we don't have to scrap the flood animation completely. As far as the analogy animation goes, Taylor thinks there is a way for us to fix the timing on our own without the need for Whitney to work on it. Also, we are going to do some re-arranging and replacing of b-roll for the purposes of making it more artistic. We have a lot to work with, so we are going to try some new things out to try to introduce some visual metaphors. We also plan to re-cut the vox pop section because the intention was for audiences to identify with one of the types presented (older white male, middle aged white male, middle aged white woman, younger white woman, minority student, shopper, boater, runner, coffee drinker, etc) and we don't want them to seem un-relatable or scripted. They all made comments about why they loved the environment, so we are going to see if we can express that. We also discussed the feedback about making it "darker" and we all agreed that is not the direction we want to take this film. We are trying to break that stereotype of environmental films with a different approach.

I am taking a copy of the rough cut to Jamie Russell from the Office of Student Involvement and Engagement tomorrow, she is sharing with Sandra Jackson from Lumina to see if we can find a good fit for it to open with another film planned for sometime in April. This would be our first screening and a way to show it to fellow students.