A Change of Plans (Text Messages)

Last week, in my Aice Media Studies class, we did a peer review in which we were all placed in groups and we gave and received feedback for both our idea and our blogs for our film opening or magazine. In a blogpost a few weeks ago, I stated that it would be way too complicated for us to make the text messages appear on the screen, so we would be simply showing the phone screen. In the process of receiving feedback from one of our classmates, what someone told us, made us reassess our decision on our plan regarding the text messages.

In our class’s peer review, we were separated into groups of five. My partner and I were on separate groups so that we could get double the opinions of different people. In my group, everyone was very accepting of everyone’s decisions and didn’t really make anyone want to change anything they had already thought out or done. However, in my partner’s group, someone actually voiced their true opinion on our idea. She thought that making the messages appear on the screen would look more professional and make it easier to read for the audience. We told her, though, that we wouldn’t know how to do that using iMovie. So, she told us about the application called Adobe Premiere Pro, that is used for editing and we could use it to make an iPhone screen appear on the side of the video. Apparently, there is a 30-day free trial, so we will definately be testing this out to see how it would turn out.

Another reason why we would be switching our idea from showing the phone screen to making the texts appear on the video is because it comes with many advantages. First of all, we would be able to show Lucy’s face, which is the main character. By showing her face, the audience will be able to see her emotions and reactions to the texts that she is receiving. Doing so will aid in showing how ignorant she is to the mass-suicides and what she just saw on the news. Also, by displaying these messages on the video, it would look a lot neater and aesthetically pleasing. We are still going to leave the idea of showing the phone screen on the back burner just in case we run into any difficulties with the editing of this.