Critique Reflection

Reflect On What You Feel You Did Best

I think the thing my group did best on was our POV shot. I thought it looked really cool and was really well done, and looked realistic to falling.

Reflect On What Your Peers Felt You Did Best

With the video that was shown (Tommy's), everyone thought that the editing was amazing, and could even be called perfect.

Reflect On What You Feel You Need To Improve On

I think I personally need to work on my editing. Tommy I think needs to work on when he breaks out of character while on camera. Finally I think our most rough shot was the dolly, so our camerawomen could work on that.

Write a statement on your strengths and weaknesses. Formulate a plan for what to focus on during future projects.

I think our strongest suit was the actual recording itself. I know that personally my weakness was editing, but that was Tommy's strength. Overall, I think I need to work on editing, but our team worked really well with each other.

What can you improve?

Editing
Lighting
Time Compression

What are your strengths and how can you make them even better?

Acting (Realism)
Shot types and special angles
Continuity

Comments

Rear Window, Film Analysis and Audio Study

The entire film is shot in one huge panning scene, and the camera never leaves the room. This makes sense for the start of the movies opening shot just one large pan across the neighborhood, giving us insight into the plot for the entire movie. We get to see each person living in their natural space, and then onward their development through the film. I think it's an amazing feat Hitchcock has completed managing to capture the entire film is one single panning scene. The commentator makes some excellent points, bringing up how Hitchcock creates more suspense by showing us almost as much as the protagonist, and making us feel as powerless as L.B feels throughout the film, unable to move. This makes the film a million times better, and adds excitement and thrill to watching this, and makes us question the main characters sanity. I think that this film was amazing. Some of the shots were very interesting ideas, like when L.B actually became the cameraman momentarily when ...

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The Golden Mean

The golden mean comes from a mathematician named Phidias, who figured out the composition of the "average" human being. To create the golden mean the proportion has to be 0.618 to 1. We saw some interesting examples of the Golden Mean like the Mona Lisa (by Leonardo Da Vinci) and even in Stonehenge. This is living proof that humans have been using the golden mean for centuries. It's also a major factor to why humans are at the top of the food chain, because we have supposed "perfect bodies." The golden mean is also prevalent in many cultural references, including the pentagram. For that reason, that is why the Pentagon is our base for US defense. The golden mean is used so often, wether it be in art, architecture, or even in just human design, it begs the question of why the golden mean is used so often. Well, the answer is simple. It's the best that we've got, and is based on humans. Why would we settle for the rest if we already have the best. :-)

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