MEDIA STUDIES - 1 MINUTE CLIP EVALUATION



PLAN - INTERROGATION 

For this 1 minute clip challenge my group created a clip based on the beginning of an integration. The clip consists of 2 main characters the antagonist and the protagonist. (so the protagonists being me who gets integrated while the antagonist is sunsun who integrates me. 

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In this clip my aim was to build up tension through the use of editing and sound effects. To begin with, for editing i achieved this by slowing down each clip to 70% in order to make each movement slower. I did this so that the audience would feel annoyed and uncomfortable as each movement was slower than usual. I also added “blur to black”  transitions to some of the clips in order to make the link between each clip smoother and also help the audience not lose their attention of the clip as well as break the tension.

For the sound, after searching for several soundtracks from movies and testing out soundtracks from movies like batman and interstellar i finally found one “ghost like” soundtrack that fits perfectly with this clip and helped build suspense. Also, At the beginning of the clip i added a “clock ticking” sound effect which i edited to fit the tapping hand gestures. By doing this i believe as a result i was sort of in a way able to fill an “award gap” in the clip and also help in the build up of tension as i made it clear to the audience that the protagonist was waiting.In addition, to build tension further and create more more dramatic effect i used cinematic sound effects (eg. BOOOM) at one part of the clip to bring importance to that scene as the protagonist is finally shown.

EBI:

However, there are things which I wished I had done better. For example one problem i found throughout editing this clip was that we did not have enough footage to cover a whole minute well enough. Therefore i had to tackle this problem by using repetitive movements like for example  “the finger tapping scene” in order to cover a whole minute. 

Secondly, another problem was that i wish i played with lighting and played around with colour effects for example made the clip black and white abit more. This would have helped add more mysteriousness to the clip.

CONCLUSION:

However, in conclusion i think i did well in creating a clip based on the beginning of an integration as although the outcome was not what i had pictured i still feel successful as it is my first time using adobe premiere pro and i also believe i was successful in building up tension throughout the clip.