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How does my sequence communicate with the audience?
I believe my sequence communicates with the audience by being entertaining and funny. The characters may relate to other people's weird and funny personalities therefore the public find the sequence funny as they may relate themselves or may know someone who relates to these actions. When watching this scene I laugh as the characters are out of the ordinary and a little strange therefore the majority of the public will find this funny. I also like how each shot is quick, there are hardly and transitions as the director wanted each character to look like there at the same place and time as if they were communicating with each eachother.
When creating my sequence I had to open up all of the individual clips that had been shot and import them to premier pro. The only shot that we did not film was the first shot of the computer screen therefore I used the shot from the original youtube video. If I were to do this again then I would definitely try to have all the clips and try to make them a little more accurate by looking a little closer at the timing of the shots in the original video and matching it up when directing the clips. Next I would try and find more suitable locations that fit the original scene and try to match the clothing, however being shot at college, this is as close to the scene as me and my group could get.
When editing I used the original video as a template and then put my clips above the original, this was so that I had a rough guide to know when the clips should start and finish and to get them all in order. Some of the clips did not match up so next time I would need to work on my framing a little more especially at the beginning. When doing this project I learnt how to add more than one layer of clips to premier pro by dragging over several clips or videos on top of the ones you have and motion control them to change the size and position.
When shooting the clips, I also learnt that there are so many different clips involved in only a small scene or sequence. The sequence I made was only 42 seconds long, however full length films are usually about 1 hour and 30 mins so I can only imagine how many shots that must be, without counting re-takes. Although this was a small sequence, me and my team had so many shots and bloopers as something would always go wrong. Whether it was someone getting in the way of a shot or the shot was not accurate or the character was in the wrong position, there was so many bloopers and re-takes involved in only one clip. From this small project, I now understand how difficult a director job may be when having a big crew and having to do plenty of scenes and shots that make up one film. As Steve Finn said when coming into our college, that there are hundred of shots in one scene as you want to keep the audience interested as you do not want to loose there focus by filming something irrelevant.
