Run Lola Run Editing Analysis Presentation

Critique

I. I believe my interpretation went pretty thorough, pertaining to my section. In my area, I had interpreted the cutting and editing pretty well. It could probably have gone on longer, and I might have been able to go more in-depth into the message Tykwer wanted to send through the edits. This includes the style he uses when he changes from fast to slow shots, and even a shot cut in two halves to develop an intimate connection between the two shown in the shot (Lola and Manni)

II. The strengths of my presentation I believe to be my voice-over and description of each slide. The viewer is able to read the basic idea written on the slide, when I interpret and bring the idea further with my voice over.

III. Certain challenges included how to record the presentation. I debated between using a screen recorder and using screenshots and placing them in Final Cut. I chose to go with Final Cut because one error when using a screen recorder will force me to redo the entire project. Areas for improvement could be how much content I had in the entire presentation. I thought that only these few slides wouldn't be enough to cover my perspective, but I thought there was nothing else I could go over. I could have also chosen better screenshots to accompany the slides.

Broadcast Critique

Broadcast Segment Critique

Pre-Production

It took our group a while to decide on an idea. Our initial idea was to interview people on summer trends, or interests. Such as new movies, video games, and other general ideas. However, we couldn’t choose that, for we had seen that someone had chosen for their segment “Summer”. Baffled, we decided to put that idea on standby until we decided to interview the girls tennis team. From my perspective, tennis doesn’t get much recognition as our other sports at Cap, so we decided to shine some light on our hard working tennis players. We ended up interviewing the coach, and volunteers from the team. Many of them were shy, so we ended up pulling people from practice to speak into the camera. Many of our b-roll was situational, and on the spot, except we envisioned a shot of a tennis ball upon the floor, and practice in the background. This shot ended up to be our title.

Production

We shot down on the tennis court in the midst of all the action. We had a helper warn us of incoming tennis balls, and believe me, many of them did come flying our way. Our b-roll was effective, but I think it was standard and cliche. I think we also lacked a few b-roll and we ended up animating a few still images, which ended up looking quite interesting. We used a variety of trucking and panning shots.  We had implemented a shot of the team and managers running diagonally past the z-axis. Our audio seemed to be fine, but there was one problem where our voice-overs ended up in mono, but I believe this was fixed in post-production.

Script
We had Vargas do the voice overs with his exceptional broadcasting voice. We found his voice the best for the questions, intro, and closer. Our questions gave the school a nice informative update on our tennis team. It may not be up to date however, for some players had quit the team since our interview. Our idea was to leave the viewers with a higher respect for our tennis team, considering it doesn’t get much interest as the other sports. We had also added a “Go Mustangs!” from the tennis team, to help add some extra spirit.
Editing
Our b-roll blends in well with our interview shots, we had placed them so one could hear and understand the interview, while being mesmerized by the intense tennis practices. I liked the title Conner had implemented with simple free fonts he had found off the internet. We ended up using a similar one for the labels for the names of the interviewees. I am a fan of the music Conner had chosen for the background audio. Apparently, it was stock audio that came with his computer. We had adjusted the start and end of the audio to sync the “motivational speech” with the part where the epic orchestral strings kick in. It added that extra flare to our project that seemed to tie up the segment pretty well.

Overall
I believe this project seemed to turn out well, considering how many hindrances we seemed to miraculously overcome. If we had more time, I would fix up our voice over, because i believe it is too quiet to hear. But that would be a challenge, for we didn’t have the seperate audio tracks. We had the combined, exported audio from the rough cut that Conner had organized at his house. So we ended up panning the audio in order to make it equal. The most important lesson i could draw from this is to have all the editing done on one computer and one program. Problems will erupt from transferring the project between two programs.

Why is it just me? (Character in Time Assignment)

Once an aspiring musician off the streets of New York, Andrei wanted to become the “next big thing” to hit the music industry. However, that was all lost in the past. Now he’s glad that he’s survived the virus outbreak. Few years prior to this day, RENEGADE Laboratories had exposed an infectious virus to the public. The effects of this virus destroys higher brain functions, leaving one’s cerebrum to govern one’s behavior. The infected will stop at nothing to devour your body. All Andrei’s left with is his electric guitar to bash in their skulls. He remembered the golden days, when his guitar skills would bring his fans cheering and screaming. However, nowadays he’s lucky to get past these “fans” without having his limbs clawed off. Andrei sat and wondered alone in an alley, wishing for life to be normal again. But what was normal? He couldn’t even remember. Crushing skulls and plowing through swarms of infected day by day had become the normal. He pondered whether this life was worth living. It sure isn’t a walk in the park when you’re infected, but it sure is a hell of a lot worse when you’re trying to fight against them. He’s lost his closest friends, his family, and even the love of his life to the infected.

“I just wish it wasn’t only me...”