Week 3 went generally quite well for us a group, producing our best piece of work at this point by far. We were very organized, and felt we needed to redeem ourselves from Week 2's film, which was admittedly sub-par. We had a drama student be our actor for the task, Jamie Gordon, who is very talented, and we are all grateful he had the time to help us. The initial concept written by Andy, describes a man who is always married to his work, and his career over the bigger things in life, and his letting his life pass him by completely, however an old friend is terminally ill, and leaves him a voice-mail message, that is intended to change his life completely. The audience hears the entire voice mail over the visuals of Jamie working, looking distressed, procrastinating, which is really, really, effective. The piece finishes with Jamie listening to the voice-mail, and looking in horror in the sudden realisation with all that he's missed out on, and a friend he'll never get to say goodbye to. In particular I really liked the close-up near the printer, that really showed his distress, and really established the mood for this film. Overall the entire piece just seemed very professional, and artistic.
Editing went very smoothly this week, besides a few audio mishaps as we filmed in the library, as we occasionally picked up some unwanted sound. This wasn't much of an issue as we didn't want that much ambient sound with the voicemail playing over the soundtrack, and we used a soundtrack aswell to really enhance the somber, melancholy mood of the piece. Watching it back, reminded me of how textured, and emotional the piece felt, and feedback was excellent. While I only had a minor role on sound this week, I'm still very joyful with the increasing quality of our work thus far.
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