Reflection Spy Editing Practical Group of 4

 After the editing practical, I felt that my planning fits the assigned brief pretty well, the brief requires us to show the nervous look of Spy A and the calm look of Spy B. I successfully encoded the scared and nervous look of Spy A through a closeup shot and how he was looking around kind of paranoid. For Spy B, I let him wear a jacket and sunglasses. This might encode that Spy B is really experienced and is not nervous, which is the contrast of Spy A. We also planned and filmed many types of shots like an insert shot, medium shot and over shoulder shot, which helped us improve our implementation skills. Instead of just understanding the meaning of each shot, we now know how to take those shots.

Personally, I think our shot list and storyboard did a perfect job at describing and presenting how our short film should be filmed, we added specific time and durations for each of our shots, the angles for each shot and the type of shot are clearly labeled. 

During production I was in charge of preparing cosmetics and acting, personally I think I can really improve on my acting since I’m quite inpatient which can ruin a perfect shot. Otherwise I think I did a decent job at acting and for preparing props I need to remember clearer each of the props and find props that are more accurate. I would give myself a score of 3 out of 5 for my role during production. I think that I’ve learned to communicate effectively with my teammates. I often give them suggestions and ask for further instructions while acting. I also think that my team did a great job at time management, we finished recording earlier than the planned time.

The first shot that I’ve chosen is a closeup shot of Spy A’s legs vibrating, which can encode fear or nervousness. I think that the shot has done a good job at highlighting the nervousness but I think the acting could have been better.

The second shot that I chose is an over shoulder shot of Spy A holding up the phone to show the time, this encodes that they might be waiting for the perfect time to do something. We also did an insert shot for this clip.

The third shot that I chose is where the camera tracks Spy A’s legs as he walks towards the bench, this encodes mysteriousness and creates question marks of who is walking towards the bench.

I would try to prepare more props since I think we can do so much better with more props. Another thing I want to improve on is the amount of angles that each scene is filmed at, I would prefer to have many angles for each scene so that the editing stages can have more variety.