Interactive Prezi discussing critical reflections

Aaron's World hindsight analysis prezi

Final movie revisions

As the deadline approached we make to a sudden stark creative reconfiguration, we decided to retain the same underlying structure of the film (i.e. the plot, the technique of breaking the 4th wall). However, ever other element was looked at and if not essential it was removed in favor refining our craft, hopefully that was made evident with our final film. With it,  we introduced a plethora of new camera shots to make the film it self more dynamic and pleasing to the eye, in addition, this also inserted a new scene of Aaron searching for his wallet so that way the scene remains uninterrupted and we eliminated all known plot holes. While obviously, this iteration comes along with some issues of its own, but as group we saw that this was a significant improvement over the last two versions. One the most noticeable and immediate differences of the film, that I think changes the entire mood, is the incorporation of new, more modern song being played over the film's introduction. That song being Shell Shocked  by Wiz Khalifa, that, again going along with our idea of making the movie more energetic.

Creative Critical Reflection (Question #4) *DRAFT*

The use of technology was rampant in this film, from beginning to end, figuratively and literally, as the beginning of the film (the time lapse) was directly done from my iPhone, I took multiple videos and combined the best ones and voila, the intro. Continuing, the use of iPhones was pivotal to this film as they are very compact and produced high quality video, every single shoot was done though and iPhone. Following the shooting the film was edited using Apple’s iMovie and there it gestated for a couple of days until finally completed. The use of technology really expands if our preferred marketing distribution method is talked about, here we will use services such as Netflix/Hulu to exclusively play the film, along with that will be commercials broadcasted by using Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. In shooting we managed to retro fit an old tripod to adhere to the dimensions of the iPhone to get a cleaner and smoother shot. We also were able to use Youtube a presentation medium instead of having it directly play on google blogger. 

Creative Critical Reflection (Question #3) *DRAFT*

I say that my production skills certainly improved over the duration of the project, more so since I was the director and I had a predetermined image of project. With that I was extremely particular with our choices and how I wanted to present the final product. I worked extremely close with our groups editor and location producer, Justin Bofield & Jacob Pilz respectively, to orchestrate things as efficiently as possible. 

While all influence was indirect it had a strong effect as I was able to morph in its raw form, in this is where I would say my production skills exponentially grew; perhaps the procurement of people and allocation of work is also another way my production skills in improved. I had a short mock reenactment of a scene in our film with a group of girl to pick from, and while that was initially successful, the actress that we choose could no longer work for due to some contingent issue. That in tandem with giving out work in accordance to tastes proved to be very productive and made for a better product. To continue, the camera work was all controlled by me, so I could really see how much an effect proper shoot could really do for our film; originally I had multiple cuts in the Aaron introduction but I felt like that would detract to much from the film and show lack of focus, no point to switch to another angle unnecessarily.