Annotation

As my short film is avant garde it has qualities that are not commonly seen in films of other genres. When I did textual analysis on short films with a circular narrative, I noticed that one of the films I analysed used a lot of annotation to give the audience extra detail and interest, especially if the clip could have been boring. I think annotation will be really useful to my film as the audience will need additional things to look at aside from the many 5-second clips to give story and some interest, plus detail and context.

I used Final Cut Pro to practice using annotation on a clip. This was really successful as there were many effects I could choose from to annotate the clip and I could personalise it easily. This is definitely a technique I will carry forward into the editing of my short film.