Production: Time to Review Some Film!

    Today I grabbed my finished product to show some of my family members my film. I wanted to get some feedback on our film so far. So I decided to go to the people I trust most to give feedback to my sisters because I knew they would be ruthless.
    I first asked my younger sister to review the footage. We watched it together really quick and then I asked her what she thought I could improve. She said that some of the effects looked wonky. I grabbed a notepad and wrote down whatever she said. So I could review it with my groupmates later. She also said that the cameras should have been smoother. So I jotted that down as well.
    I then asked my other younger sister who is a little bit older than the other one what she thought of it. She was blunt and said she is not a fan of action themes. So I got my mother to do review the film instead. My mom told me that we should add more emotion to our acting which I sort of agreed with. Emotionless line delivery could ruin our film, especially one that uses emotion like ours. So I wrote that down and then went back to a discord call with my groupmates to review.
    When we got into the discord call we started saying who we reviewed and what they said about our film. We said that we should first get together and fix anything that had to do with filming such as emotionless acting. Then we would focus on fixing the editing which would most likely be harder. Since editing needs time to learn and we are still newbies at editing.


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