The Wrath of Camilla- My Film Critque



the last shot of the movie, boy
and girl walk away together



Rationale: During the first weeks of school, as a class, we watched the movie, Amelie. This movie inspired my group's film project. At first I wanted a story about a boy and girl meeting each other than they become in love with each other, but this treatment didnt work out so we went with another treatment. Our film was produced by me, Jenna Fontaine, and Isabella Wen. Our film was about a young michevious girl who has revenge on a bully that bullies her freind. The girl is an outcast and the boy is a nerd. The genre of this film was a romntic comedy because the girl does mean/funny things to bully and at the end the girl and boy walk away holding hands. This film was made for teenagers becuase usually teenagrs deal with bullies and tis movie shows that people should stand up for something that harms other people.



The boy and bully did a good job acting



Genre Connections/ Director Influences/ Influences and Narrative/Story: The genre is a romantic comedy because the character's personality are funny and corny, that it would make you laugh. its romantic because in the begining of the film we see a relationship between the boy and girl in class, and we also see a relationship at the end of the film where the boy and girl hold hands and leave the scene. This genre is connected to the film Amelie because the genre in Amelie is a romantic comedy. That is one of the reasons why or how we incoprorated this movie in our film. In our film I wanted to do more with it butit didn't go as well. I wanted a mystery going on in the narrative but it didn't make the cut. Our film, which I feel was a good film narrative to begin with but our next film narrative should be a little more challenging.

bad lighting

 Directing/Acting/Character :
Well in this film, I was the director. I think I did a good job and it wasn't me all by myself, I give credit to my other group members because they all focused and they were doing their jobs. They made m jobs easier. Duringn shooting our actors were on task and following our directions. I didn't take the full roll of the director, but I was helped by my group members. Our characters did a phenomenaul job on gettig their part done. They didn't just pretend to be the character, they were the character. That is another reason why our film was so successful, because of our actors did
their jobs well.



nice facial expression

Our character's in our film fitted the roles of the actors that we asked them to act for our film. They were on time and productive with us and I thank them a lot. Being the director on this film was a very good experience because I managed to be productive and get to finish our shooting on time, which we did!

 



over the shoulder shot

Edit/FX, Techniques or Concepts: I just wish that I had one more day for editing because I feel that al my cuts are simple, there s technique, but I would like to have done the matching cuts and color changes. I feel that my editing was fine, but I had a problem. When the girl throws the pencil on the floor the cut isn't smooth. I tried to fix it but I had no time, and I wished I had the time to fix it. Another problem I had was with the P.A. announcemnt because I felt my cuts weren't smooth at all in those scenes. I felt that I had simple cuts in my film because the concept of our idea was simple. Next time I would like to do a different concept so I can incorporate more editing techniques into my film.



in edit I put a slip noise



Sound FX/ Score: Since we had a camera with a boom mic, we had good audio, but the sounds were too low. But that is ok because I highered the volume in the editing process. I also had trouble with the background sound, so when the gilsaid bye the sound was very low and it wasn't clear at all. Next time we should have a boom mic closer to the actors when they are going to speak.



 Cinematography: Our cinemetographer was Jenna Fontaine, and she did a good job. Our shots were simple, but we had a variety of shots, like over the soulder, extreme closeups, medium closeups, and full shots. One mistake that I saw when watching my movie is that we

had continuity problems. Next time we should work on keeping continuity.

Another problem or imporvement we should make is to have close ups on

the action scenes. When Camilla observed the bully attack the boy,the whole

time this is seen from the girls point of view. We should have had some closeups

 of the two actors. When Camilla saw the P.A. the shot was an over shoulder

shot, and we wanted to do a rack focus but none of us knew how to do that,

 so next time we should work on our camera techniques or at least review them.



had extras in the way which led to confusion

Production Design/Mis En Scene: Our production design isn't that interesting or unique because we shot at school. The girl always had her backpack on and was always holding a binder. We didn't really manage props because we didn't need a lot of props. Our most important prop was the planner because it set our climax. Next time we should include more props and have more interesting locations.



too much lighting

Your "objective" analysis of the film as a whole:  I thought that the film was successful because I had fun prepearing it and editing it. Since this is my first film I feel that I was a little rusty. One scene that was hard fo me to edit waswhen th bully tripped on the banannna that scene took a long time for me to perfect. I wished that I took a little more longer to edit all my scenes like that. One imporovement I have t make this year ismy bckground music because I had different types of music in the background that didn't relate together. We also had too much lighting problems.