Silent Film Evaluation

What went well?

When putting the editing together, I included elements of key features that you would
associate with silent films.
These would be intertitles, alternatively to make the audience engaged and guided through
each scene, on what was going on because we couldn’t do no dialogue, so we were allowed
to do this instead as silent films used intertitles.
I also included different filters such as Film Grain which I got from E-study and I also used
blend mode, black and white colour grade. When we came to edit first we had to put the
sequence settings 800 x 600 pixels and the ratio we had to use was 4:3 and also adjusted
the film rates to 12 frames per second. Because of the speed for silent films, they are very
slow.
I also incorporated music to give the audience, some feeling of emotion, speed and
atmosphere.
As a team we all did well for listening and contributed well, with differences of opinions.

What didn’t go well?

I feel that I would of liked to do a silent film on comedy slapstick, (if we had a opportunity to
do it again). As I feel that this is more suited to comedy style “Charlie Chaplin” we have
looked at him in our lesson.
I also need to be more careful with my grammar e.g. watching was spelt watching
I also missed used “I” when it should have been “and “in the intertitles

What new skills have you learnt?

I have developed more knowledge my camera skills

I have expanded well with working as a team, with different members of our group.
I am developing my listening, communicating and articulation/verbal skills.
I have learned how to do intertitles, adding film grain, black and white colour grade, blend
mode, also I have learnt how to do film rates.

How well did you achieve the technique?

The technique was match on action. Cutting from one shot to the next so it flows.

What role did you play as the team?

I helped with directing and organised where the actors needed to be.
I made sure everyone had equal opportunities with sharing the camera and equal roles.