(POST 6) Final Cut
This is our final cut of our first project. We feel this piece was very successful even though this was our first attempt of using the equipment and resources.
E.T The Extra Terrestrial
After 1977's Close Encounters (see no 11), director Steven Spielberg reversed the alien encounter formula to wonder not what we would make of them but what they would make of us. The result was this 1982 blockbuster, which eclipsed even the original Star Wars and received nine Oscar nominations (winning four) – a feat unheard of for a film with such overt sci-fi content. Despite its genre trappings, ET balanced its fantasy content with an academy-pleasing dose of sentiment, played out in the home life of Elliott (Henry Thomas), a lonely 10- year-old whose parents are separating. Little time is spent revealing where the film's ET has come from, or how he came to be left behind. Instead, Spielberg focuses on the film's unlikely-buddy story; the middle child of three (Drew Barrymore is the sweet but clingy younger sister, Robert MacNaughton the cynical teenage big brother), Elliott takes in the ET as the friend and confidant he doesn't have. Largely filmed from an a...
Keri, this is really good. You have used a decent sample size and have some interesting responses. There are some great uses of on screen titles and cuts between shots/interviewees. Perhaps next time we can intercut between these interviewees ( a bit like the TV show First Dates does with the dates) so that we don't spend so long with each response in a row.
ReplyDeleteCan you add something about the responses. Did you get the responses you thought you would? What do YOU as a filming team think about the people you interviewed, would you ask the same demographics again? What would be your response if asked this question?