Monday, February 09, 2009
During today's single-period lesson, we started off immediately screening the videos of our respective groups. The groups include Adrian's group, Jeffrey's group, Louise's group, Henry's group and my group consisting of Elliot, Jing-Ting, Joyce and Justin Tay. The objective of screening the works of our fellow schoolmates is firstly to see how differently each of us interpret the task(s) given, as well as to share and develop ideas as we discuss the pros and cons as well as display a showcase of how each of us manipulate the tools and editing software differently. Generally, we are just trying to learn from our respective peers, so that we can become more experienced after the excercise. We become more knowleadgeable and better thinkers and communicators according to the IB learner profile, because gradually we develop understanding through expressing ideas, communicating confidently and applying thinking skills critically and creatively as we evaluate our peer's work.
We started off with the video provided by Adrian's group, which was in my opinion the best group that met their objectives with flying colours, using a wide range of extensive techniques, which is commendable from fliming to editing. I particularly found their "gritty documentary feel" style of task 1 their masterpiece, since they incorporated a '• REC' layout and slightly blurred the quality, which I found a devastating achievement for just a simple recap excercise. Their scene for "student typing on the computer" was also fabulously done, as they tampered the focus lens on the camera appropriately to allow high-detailed convincing shots. The only critique would be their second task, which they overdid the shades of red and blue in their colour filter, emitting an articifial red/blue aura across the frame that seemed out of context, NOT expressing the "angry, shocked surprise" and "sad, melancholy surprise". Their sounds were also nicely rendered, however was too visual because they did not cut out the visual footage as they filmed for it.
As for the second group - Jeffrey's, I particularly liked the camerawork since Jeffrey is an experienced cameraman - working well in both cinematography and photography. They were the only group that showed scene change, which immediately enhanced the quality of their screenplay. The "law-of-thirds" shot was frankly no so grand, since they had shaky camerawork and they tailed their actors for a period of time too long. Their sounds were also deserved praise, since they were very verbal but quite accurate. Unfortunately, they did not do a great job in two of their sounds, since they were abstract and had no headings to support their interpretation.
Henry's group was the one which I fear had not done as well as other members in our class. Firstly, they had limited editing in their footage, and provided less appealing ideas to share and develop. However, it is not considered balderdash since none of their group members are editors, which may be the main reason to their downfall. At the bright side, their sounds were pretty nicely generated, using great props for meeting the objectives.
As for Louise's group, they showed a great deal of knowledge and understanding of the topic, however they overdid most of the video editing effects, somewhat defeating some of their greatly captured footage and ideas generated. They managed to understand and hence proceed with meeting their objectives, performing an exemplary job for the sharp, detailed effect of task 1, task 3 and many of their sounds. Their sounds for "time" and "work" was nice, using clock ticking for time and the clicking of heels and pens for work. I found their gritty, documentary feel piece overdone since they lowered the video quality into almost not viewable, their shades of red/blue for their second task was too soft and showed not much difference, and their "student typing on the computer" was too long and their camera angles should be dutch rather than eye-leveled.
As for the piece I did with my group members, the class found the "student walks up the stairs" scenario and our sounds for work the most praiseworthy pieces. Firstly, instead of giving our image a colour filter for our second task, we tweeked with the RGB spectrum, highlighting the blue regions blue and red region red for the respective objectives. This allowed the piece to look natural however still strong enough to suggest the moods. As for our "work", we used much more different props to represent this - typing, mouse clicking, pencil scribbling, calculator clicking, background noise, human talking as well as phone ringtone. Picking on our negatives, we can improve on our camerawork, since we were not able to zoom out quick enough for our task 1, leaving the camera rolling in confusion after locking on Justin Tay's facial regions.We explored many areas of the IB learner profile during today's lesson, even though it was just a screening session with discussions. Mainly being reflective, since we evaluted on each other's works, allowing individuals to give thoughtful consideration, and learn though our strengths and limitation. I find this screening and discussion session vital towards our personal development.
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