Feedback

I have received some feedback about the two short films.

The general consensus is that the black and white one is much better than the colour one.


From someone who knows about programming:
"Although WHILE in English expresses a continuous state, in programming it represents a repeated set of actions. That is, one asks the question: is it true that I don't have my keys? If it is true, we carry out the key search routine. Then we ask the question again. So, I wonder if there is some way of conveying the repeated nature of the task, a series of short repeated searches rather than making it look like one long search activity?"

I thought that this was a good idea and would give a better sense of the loop, but it makes the film a bit boring and unvaried. In my film, I do have a lot of similar scenes, he's either looking through drawers or along the top of benches, I have tried for the sake of the film to vary the shots each time that he searches one of these places, so it is repetitive searching similar places but it's not exactly the same thing multiple times.


"Finally, I was a bit puzzled as he seemed to already know where the keys were at the start -- weren't they hanging up?"

The ones hanging up were the house keys, he was looking for his car keys. I tried to make the sign with the little logos obvious, but clearly not well enough (although why he's leaving without his house keys is a bit of an error on my part...). I will try to make this more obvious. 


"Also, I like the B&W better than the colour. Or maybe you could change to colour when the loop finishes? (Or should that be the other way round???) "

I love this idea, like you say it gives a sense of completion when the loop is finished. Definitely going to try and implement this in the final version.