Once the presenting was finished and the videos were uploaded to a channel to showcase the entire Ufilms Oscars Rundown. On this channel, two of the videos feature me as a presenter, which are The History of the Oscars and The Oscars Afterparties. These videos feature the presenting techniques learned from the research. My personal opinion would be that the first video went better than the second in terms of presenting, as the presenting was of a much more standard and professional quality, and it definitely comes across as being a much more scripted piece, as the second piece did not have a set script and was improvised around main points and jokes that were intended to move it forward - this setup for the second piece did not work as well, and therefore was not as good in terms of its presenting as the first.
The first video, The History of the Oscars, was in the style of Pathe News and/or Monty Python (And Now for Something Completely Different sketch) in the style of comedy with deliveries similar to the aforementioned sketch. During creation, this format worked fine (other than the inevitable forgetting lines) and helped create a video that is of a decent quality that we were happy with and the feedback from the class was that the video was a good quality and was enjoyable to watch, with everyone generally agreeing that the video was funny and well shot, which was helpful feedback. Personally, I'm not a fan of seeing myself on screen, especially with the clothes we were wearing I did not feel comfortable on camera and thus don't enjoy watching it particularly, but I would agree that the jokes and quality was of a good standard and the video was enjoyable. People outside of the college course (peers, tutors and the videos audience) also gave positive feedback, mostly verbally, saying that the video was humourous and enjoyable and that the style worked well, giving positive feedback about the content. The technical side of it, compared to the original intentions, was good, as we were able to make it black and white with some old style "fuzziness" in the style of the video during the editing stages. The production stages of the video were done professionally and efficiently with plenty of teamwork and time management to make sure it was done well without taking too long, rehearsing and recording it efficiently and effectively, allowing it to be completed ready for release with little to no problems. While management of production and pre-production was very efficiently managed, editing the video was slightly slow due to needing to help film other pieces, and so during the rendering and exporting, due to a lack of time and several technical issues involving Premier Pro and harddrives, we ended very far behind schedule, but the video was (fortunately) uploaded on time. Everything was done to a good standard, and the feedback reflected this, making the first of our Oscars videos our personal favourite.
The second video starring me was The Oscars Afterparties video, which was done to represent the style of the film Wayne's World and how they present their fictional TV show in the film. The pre-planning of this went differently, as there was less time to prepare a script and do any research as it required knowledge of the afterparties themselves, which occurred shortly after the Oscars (Sunday night and Monday morning), while the video was filmed on Tuesday night. Due to this, instead of a script we simply jotted down our "main jokes" on a sheet, alongside the research and made links between the two points, oftentimes having to say before takes what we were about to say. We felt that the content felt lacking in comparison to the first video, and that the only saving grace of the video was the style of it as we captured the Wayne's World feeling pretty well and it matched our intentions of the video well with a lot of appropriate uses of Wayne's World-esque mannerisms as derived from our preparation and rehearsal of the notes we'd taken. The recording went well (although it took a while due to improvisation) and we managed the time effectively to have it filmed quickly and be done on time, as well as edited a day before upload thanks to communication and teamwork between the two of us and the rest of the Ufilms team. When it was uploaded, we rewatched it and asserted our belief that it was good, but that the week 1 video was made better and that, had we more time, we would have planned and prepared the week 2 video a lot more. The general consensus amongst peers, tutors and classmates was a similar sentiment, and the audience tended to agree in this direction. We believe that, given the chance, we would prepare for the Wayne's World video to the extent of the first video and that it probably would have been a far higher quality than the original video due to it being a lot more comfortable and natural to perform in.
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