Beauty - ID# 248

Homewood-Flossmoor

Documentary

Entry Description

An in-depth look at what people consider beautiful.

Recent Teacher Comments

• 4/28 5:28 am - Put your by line at the end – it makes the story about you having it in the beginning, great use of graphics and motion, strong complimentary interview, powerful component to add student interviews – brings home the point, good depth of field on student interviews
• 4/9 2:47 pm - Nice opening. The graphics throughout kept up interest. Sound effects are so important in animated works. Good work.

Judge 1

Positives: Nice job! You’ve presented a very important issue in an interesting way that engages all types of viewers. Making a compelling motion graphics-driven video project is a challenging task, and you certainly served it well as you introduced research, primary sources and your own perspective. I think your use of old fashioned music and modern, sleek graphics provides a nice dichotomy to explore this timeless issue.

Improvements: I applaud your use of experts to talk about these topics… and I think it’s fine that you went with a Skype interview. However, try working on making it look more polished. Work with your subject so she isn’t slumped over on a couch as she talks… try working with her to find a bit more interesting production design for the background… crop out the Skype interface border on the left… and either crop your own picture-in-picture image out—or don’t. Don’t just cut it off halfway. In short— don’t be shy to “direct” your interviewee over Skype, as a few tweaks can really make a nice visual difference. In the “person-on-the-street” interview, it got a bit confusing as you went back and forth between asking them to name darker-skinned and lighter-skinned actresses. I think this part could be structured a bit better. Personally, I think you could have dropped this section and your piece would have been stronger.

Judge 2

Positives: The editing and graphics were a great way to convey the topics.

Improvements: The cinematography should have been a larger part of the film, models could have been filmed for example. The skype footage and interviews could have been filmed better.

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