Star Persona LR

1) Type up your feedback from your teacher in full.

- Wow! A brilliant, creative and bold interpretation of the brief.

- Superb choice of music... actually made me laugh out loud!

- The music did come in a little suddenly at the beginning - was that deliberate? From a technical perspective, this may be a skill to develop.

- In terms of length, it's a little long at 2.46. Speeding up the timelapse would have been the solution - was this an option on your editing software?

- The final result... well, what can you say? A remarkable job from your make-up crew and well done for choosing such an ambitious and striking approach. We will be studying gender fluidity later in the course too!

- A couple of bits of feedback in terms of the overall effectiveness of the video... the ending is too sudden (music again) and also you're missing some great non-timelapse shots at the end to show the result of the makeover. In fact, I'd have gone the other way and included some slow-motion shots at the end to show the final result and emphasise the femme fatale element. In addition, the neutral background is solid for most of the video but at the end you have a wider shot and it's clearly a classroom - another aspect you could have improved.

2) Type up the comments you received from other students in the class. You may wish to do this in bullet point and you do not need to repeat comments if more than one student wrote the same thing about your work.

Overall - outstanding! A wonderful interpretation of the brief and what a brilliant way to start the practical side of Media. You will go far!

3) Use the feedback you've been given to write your own self-assessment of your video using WWW (What Went Well) and EBI (Even Better If...)

WWW: I think the video and the image I tried to convey sent across a message that women are empowering. 

EBI: The video length, speed and slow motion scenes could be improved to enhance the overall effect of the time lapse. 
4) Now reflect on your own work in more detail. How did your star persona mood board planning help clarify and develop your ideas?

4) Now reflect on your own work in more detail. How did your star persona mood board planning help clarify and develop your ideas?

The mood board helped me get a visual idea of what the transformation would look like. This also helped us create the femme fatale look which is highly prominent in the video. I think I could have watched a few films that had a femme fatale feel to it to get into the character of my star. I feel that the mood board did its job as it gave me a vision on what my star should look like.

5) Thinking technically, how could you improve your work for future videos? (E.g. filming, editing, sound etc.)

I think i could fade the music at the end and then include slow motion scenes at the end to emphasis the femme fatale image. I might have been able to add d few stills of the before and after to show the transformation.

6) Finally, what have you learned regarding the importance of mise-en-scene to character, narrative and the creation of star personas in film and television?

The background, choice of music and selection of speeds make the overall atmosphere better. In terms of mise-en-scene, the costume, lighting and props add to enhance the image of the star you are trying to project.