Final Class Screening

On Thursday Night we had our final class where we wrapped up the course and showed our films!

It was really interesting to see the other groups films, and then to see peoples reactions briefly to our film. We seem to have been well received which is a really nice feeling.

Everyone's films, or at least what we had seen so far of everyone's films, were really quite different, yet, because of several things found within all of the films, you can really see that they are intended to be part of a series. I really liked that each film was done in a different way - for example, I really liked that the LessLIE interview was done in Cornett, at each of his art pieces. This was very different from our interview where we went out to Chris's studio and had a sit down interview. It was interesting to watch the videos and see the different ways that each group tackled this project. We were able to point out various things that made each film fall nicely into the series together, for example, each artist talked about colour being an important aspect of their art- branching out further than traditional colours. It was interesting to catch something like that in each film since that wasn't something that we had discussed in class to look into or anything with our interview questions. These moments in the film really helped me to envision these films together in a series. Of course, having the same music, title, introduction style, etc., also help to create this continuity, but it's nice to see similarities throughout the films as well. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I really like that each film had a very different feel to it even though there were similarities throughout them.   

For some reason our film had a glitch when we tried to upload it where we couldn't get rid of background noise from when we took the footage, as well as what ended up sounding like Satan talking because someones voice had been slowed down and we couldn't get rid of it. We had troubles getting our film off of iMovie and onto the other screen for viewing, but Julia was able to get it eventually, so that was good! Besides these two issues, everyone seemed to like our film which was nice to see. I'm excited to see the Maynard film when it is done! I really liked the way they set up their interview and I think they will have gotten some nice footage of him doing art, and of his art work.

I think each of us were able to pick out a few more things when we watched our film that could be fixed before we hand in the film to Andrea. Hopefully we can do that and then be done! I'm really impressed with the way our film turned out, I mean really impressed that it came together so well. I don't know why I was so doubtful, but I think we really pulled it off!

I am so incredibly pleased!