Blogpost 15: Rough Cut

Rough Cut Feedback from audiences

Most of the audiences give me 8/10 for the song choices except some of the foreigners did not understand mandarin (The song choice is no problem)

There were a large number of the audience who were saying my ideas aren’t clear and the rest states out that they think it was pretty clear. To improve this I could probably make a better linking of the two storylines then I can make sure everyone cab understand my ideas.

Most people gave me around “ok” grade for the quality of filming which means I need to add more of a different variety of shots and angles, different stages when I’m doing refilming.

Most people gave me pretty low at editing and that’s the one element I should be working on now.

Refilm planning

Key points focus on is foregrounds the relationship between Kong in past and Kong in the present.

Therefore I need to built up a stronger connection between the two characters. I am going to use the same actor this time but with totally different costumes also in different stages to emphasize the difference between them. (Probably use school uniforms and casual clothes for Kong in the past in verse 1 and verse 2, and had suite-and tie for Kong in the future in verse 3.) I have decided to only act by myself

The main stage of verse 1, Kong in the past would be at school, I want to add more shots of campus, especially some close-up shots of basketball court and also the key theme of the song, all the memory, I want to make it a dream for the first two verse, when the Kong in the present is walking through the school, it reminds him about the memory he got.

For verse 2, I want to use the paper plane as the representative, while I would film a longer clips for the paper plane in the sky and interspersed memories between. Paper plane was also referred to the time machine, which I would made a flash-back from future to past and had a freeze frame of Kong in the past, who was standing at the top of the building, looking down.

The last verse would be the most interesting part I imagined. Kong in the present at a telephone booth calling Kong in the past, then he walked out, walked into a bar. As he entered, the character switched to Kong in the past, he answered the phone. And the end part would be the present Kong cheers with the past kong. At the end the present Kong walk away.