Smokin' Joe Reception

We presented the video to the class finally & were quite disappointed with the reaction.

Yes the quality was not great but we went according to what was allowed so it was quite troubling to have that reception. We did do a good job of the effects though so I'm satisfied with that part at least. We knew a reshoot was very unlikely since we'd spent so much time on this as it was and there was still the main project to complete. Our next objective was just to cut the lengthy stalking scenes, which were obviously too long -- even we knew it was a glaring oddity but needed more time to fix that.

We decided we might have to take out the stalker-smoking scene which we loved because of how it announced his presence in teh dark with the glowing amber of the cigarette. Unfortunately that pathway was the darkest part so we might have to make that sacrifice. The staircase scene was enough to introduce the stalker, albeit less excitingly.

We also heard that the audio was too soft but that was more of a problem with not knowing where the volume control was in the tutorial lab. So not much problem there.

It was quite disappointing! But I guess it was mostly the length -- which we can fix -- and the darkness -- which we can work with. We did try brightening it but it was very faded. So we might do a videocam effect.