Change of Plans

In a previous post, I mentioned that my partner and I have decided to utilize shot-reverse-shot with the messages our main character would be receiving from her phone throughout our film opening; however, after a class discussion last week, my partner and I have reconsidered the idea of having the text messages show up on screen next to Lucy when she receives them. 

The class discussion consisted of groups of 5 students coming together and explaining their advancement with their film opening project. Moreover, one of the students in my group wasn’t convinced that the use of shot-reverse-shot to show the text messages was the best way to go. Thus, she made the suggestion that my partner and I make use of text messages that appear on screen, and I told her that my partner and I had been trying to decide on that the week before. I also told her that we decided to use shot-reverse-shot just because of how much more practical it was compared with making the text messages show up on screen. However, she told me about an editing tool named “Adobe Premiere Pro” that she had used once before and that she remembers there were ways to mimic the screen of a phone of the video clip itself. She also told us about the 30-day free trial and brought up some of the same points that I mentioned before in a previous blog post on the benefits of using texts that appear on the screen. Some of these benefits include the following:

• One can see the facial expressions of the character on screen
• It is visually/artistically pleasing
• It showcases my team’s capabilities in editing

https://vimeo.com/103554797

^^More benefits can be seen in this video made by Tony Zhou^^

As a result from the group discussion I explained before, my partner and I decided on having text messages that appear on screen next to Lucy in our film opening and having the shot-reverse-shot of actually showing the phone as our “plan B” or backup plan if we have trouble with the editing required in the first option of displaying the texts. Thus, we will be doing the 30-day free trial for “Adobe Premiere Pro” and we will be playing around with the all the editing tools it has. We will update any advances or setbacks we have in a future post.