Week 5: director's comments

This week's debrief was really interesting so far as our production is concerned. The feedback from the tutors was scarce if not absent. However, looking at the audience's reaction, the film was quite effective. Especially when taking into consideration all the obstacles I had to cope with. 

First of all, the only talking actor didn't learn the lines. This resulted in recording each of the shot for 10 minutes, so that Coach could read the script and act as we went on. What's more, I received the script only an hour before actual shooting on Monday, so I had very limited time to think how to stage the film, where Coach should put emphasis on, what parts are more important than the others. Last but not least, there were only two (including me) out of five members of the group taking active part (=present) throughout the whole process of editing. And then some of them were complaining about the editing itself.

One of few comments of the tutors was to try to go away from on screen realism as far as possible, so as to let cinema work its magic. I can't agree with it more, for this is exactly how I perceive the art of moving images. Unfortunately, not everyone in Penumbra Pictures is convinced to this interpretation of film making which results in the majority of the films we've already shot and put together. Hopefully, their perception will change during the course of a few remaining weeks of Media Production Project module.