La La Land review

What to say about La La Land, the movie was well choreographed okay that's an understatement the choreography was spectacular. When I first heard the title I thought that the movie would be set in the 1950's the movie is in fact a homage to the era and genre of filmmaking particularly when Ryan Gosling's character "Sebastian" swings around a lamppost. it has been said that every frame of this film was a work of art and I have to agree.


The most impressive if not emotional moment of the film is the ending where as unlike the genre and era of films La La Land pays homage to this does not have the star-crossed lovers have a "Happy ever after" while admitting that they would always have feelings for each other they go their separate ways to achieve their dreams but it does show a montage of Sebastian and Emma Stone's character "Mia" if they hadn't separated but it shows that Sebastian never achieves his dream of opening a Jazz Club while Mia becomes an accomplished actress


The interactions between the characters are well done as Sebastian continually encourages Mia to follow her dreams even after she has give up on being an actress.


To conclude La La Land is an excellent film and has earned the Oscar's it has been nominated for. the actors deserve it   

unit 62 - evidence of editing intercative media video

The image above is a screen shot of myself inserting text into the video to describe the story of that segment of the video. the reason I chose that font is that it would stand out against the forest background in the video however the font shown in this screen shot is different then the one shown in the final video.

Below is an image of how I have labelled the footage of the video.

The way I labelled the footage was numbering the shots that of certain things that came in a specific order for example the file "Pill Box 1" is the first file featuring the Pill Box bunker in Thornaby Woods

When I had labelled the footage I deposited the selected footage which had been cut down to relevant portions I depositied it on to the time line to be rendered and exported once all of the selected footage had been put together and further cut down.

Once all of the footage had been cut down put together and captions added on to it I then set it to render so it could be exported

Once rendering process had been complete it was time to export the completed video so it could be provided to the rest of the group.



Unit 26 - digital video Evaluation

The finished product is a definite achievement of the assignment's original assignment. The video when seen by the clients was approved and the clients say that it was better quality then the videos they already had on YouTube. The video was well edited highlighting the well done Camera Work which the clients compared to industry standards.


In regards to the Production skills used in creating the finished product every member of the production team edited their own version of the promotional video my version had text narration included. during the preproduction of the video we had our own tasks to complete. my contributions were researching legal and ethical considerations in making films featuring wild life and nature. If I can make a small admission I do think I could have been given more to do during the project.


The constraints that the video had during production was finding a non-copyright restricted and free to use soundtrack for the video that would work well with all of the sections so that the finished product wouldn't seem disjointed.


The leader of the group was Daniella Cooper who managed the team extraordinarily, the communication across the team was not the best however as I made several inquiry's to see if there was anything more for me to do, however that may just be me not speaking loud enough. When the clients were presented with the finished product they were extremely impressed so I believe that we exceeded their expectations.


The clients were suitably impressed with the finished product except for that one shot was quite jarring and the logo featured in the video needed changing to the current logo of the client organisation. One of the Client representatives also stated that the video was on par and even better then if the video was produced by professionals

Finished documentary

Over the past several months I have been producing A documentary about myself more importantly how I deal with autism
Please note that while the video is over 20 minutes the documentary part of it ends at around 15 minutes

I hope you enjoy