'Making of' - Week 1
For our initial task in the 'making of' module, we were tasked to search out for three making of videos which we found particularly interesting or engaging, thus introducing us to the concept of 'making of'.
Above is the making of video for one of my favorite short-lived sitcoms, Channel 4's 'Derek'. What I like about this video, is the fact that it shows how well the cast members get on, therefore some very amusing dialogue is exchanged, through the personality of 'Karl Pilkington' which rose him to fame. I get a good sense of where the ideas from the show originated from, as old footage of the main character, 'Derek' was seen before he was as three-dimentional as he was in the show itself. Karl's lack of knowledge on how TV shows are made, caused Ricky Gervais to educate him and therefore the audience in the process, therefore providing an educational insight on the production itself through the questions that an audience member with no experience in filming would ask.
Above is the making of video for the PS3 video game, 'The Last of Us'. As this making of video covers a huge project, it tends to focus primarily on the main elements of the project which help rise it to how popular it is today, and that is through the emotional impact and character performances and development behind the piece. The fact that I sat through the entire hour and a half of footage on offer, shows how engaging the video is. This is mainly because of the way that they keep cutting from behind the scenes of the game design, to behind the scenes of the writing and ideas generation, to actor performances, therefore covering a wide range of interests and not spending too much time on one topic so that the viewers get bored.
This is the first part of a three-part video series regarding the making of 'The World's End', one of my favorite films of all time. I admire the simplicity behind this making of, as there are no interviews, and instead just gives you behind the scenes footage and outtakes whilst displaying some simple notes and the bottom of the screen. This causes both positives and negatives, as though you are educated on how the shots are captured, and given some insight on the personalities on the cast whilst working, unfortunately the ideas generation and evaluation on the project as a whole from the cast and writers is absent, therefore people unaware with this project may not understand what this documentary is about. But as a fan of the film, I gained a lot of knowledge in the form of text on screen whilst being engaged by the personalities of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, showing how simple a making of video can be made.
