Drama Club's 12 Angry Men - ID# 508
York
Natural Audio News Package
Entry Description
An informational news package produced by Kathryn Castanoli that follows Drama club's process of preparing for their latest performance, Twelve Angry Men, and how it differed from their previous shows.
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/18 11:55 am - As a natural sound piece it is really important to include dialogue from the show, the problem is you played it through most of your piece so at many points I felt like I was trying to listen to two conversations at the same time. You need to decide what you want your audience to listen to and when – that way they see and hear the story just the way you want them to. It was really hard for me to focus on what is important to listen to (most of Paige’s interview is really hard to hear). Maybe the first shot of the piece could have been a poster advertising the play so the first three shots would have a little more meaning. I liked the authentic footage of the play, but the majority of your camera work was the same type of shot, kind of a wide cover shot showing lots of people around a table. Break those shots up with close ups of the little things the actors are doing during those scenes, eye rolls, looking away, nodding in disagreement. Because your camera work lacked diversity it seemed all kind of vanilla pretty quick. In addition, to the audio making it feel like there were two stories going on I felt like the visuals were not necessarily supporting what was being talked about. Your topic it makes it hard – I get it, but realistically I just didn’t feeling like your visuals were reinforcing what the interviewers were talking about, and if that is not happening, your viewers start getting distracted. Make sure you also work at matching your audio levels for example Oliver Roy comes in really hot after the director. I think the three interviews you got were good, it was just a lot of work to hear what they were saying,
- 4/16 1:24 pm - It was hard to understand the sound bytes as the natural audio was too loud in places. Need to have a good balance. There were a number of edits in this story that were too quick and appeared as flash frames. While you had the natural audio in the background, you did not use it to help tell the story. Bring that audio up full in between sound bytes and let it tell the story. Let’s hear the audio full from the characters in the show. Let your viewers hear a line or 2 of dialogue from the characters to help draw their attention to the show. The way you edited this story, the nat audio was competing too much with the VOs and neither could be heard well.
- 3/6 2:12 pm - This was a really interesting story about the two different casts for your show. Interviews were well framed and did a great job explaining the 2 different casts. I love how you played the audio from your rehearsals to help tell this story, however, at times, it was distracting from your interviews. I had a hard time focusing on the multiple lines of dialogue happening at once. What might be helpful in telling this story in the future is to play your interviews and then play some of the rehearsal on its own without the voice over. For example, when the interviews talk about the "one woman convincing the men...," play a short part of the scene on stage that shows this by itself. Great start overall!
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