My first thoughts about the blog were that it looked and is very detailed and when reading through the blog I can see that they understand what they planned to do and how they were going to complete it. For example, when writing the plan they went through each part of the task explaining what they intending to do, such as, 'initial ideas', 'title ideas', 'character, prop and location'.
On a negative side, even though what they did write for the plan was detailed, they could have writing a bit more about other aspects of task in their plan, such as, what they were going to shoot, any affects or editing they knew they wanted to do etc.
When completing the research part of the task, they did quite well, it was detailed and they researched two film sequences and referred to 'the odd thing' when planning and evaluating.
At the same time, I don't they did as well as they could with the research and with the number of people in the group, they could have research a lot more film or other things which were relevant.
Overall, I think they did really well with the blog, they really put some thought into it and they all seemed to have a good idea on what they wanted to achieve.
As a whole, I didn't really think the video is a good as they could have made it, based on what they were able to do in their plan and research. The first thing which I didn't like was the flickering of the shot of the close up of the main characters eye. I thought the flickering was out of time and should have been timed with either the eye-lid closing or opening, rather than random flicks. This would have made a better affect and it wouldn't look like they just flicked it any way they felt.
The next part of the video, I quite like, it shows flickering between different images which the boy on the bench is remembering. In this case, the flickering works and gives the best affect in the video. It is the most professional 'looking' part of the video.
When watching the video, you can tell that the camera is hand held and it shows obvious shake and unbalance. This makes the video look like it either has bad affects or that they aren't used to the camera. Instead of holding the camera in these shots, they could have hand the camera stand and moved the camera or had the camera person on some sort of moving object, such as a wheelchair.
The rest of the camera shots, fades and pans up are quite good and give a good affects to the change of character. The fade, I specifically liked, it was the a right spend and in my opinion, it was the only thrilling part of the video.
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