Evaluation Finished

PLANNING:

In the planning aspect of our preliminary coursework we feel we excelled with our storyboard, props, script and overall plot design.

Our acting was done fairly well but in the future we will attempt to become more suited to our roles via putting more input and practicing and polishing up on our script.

Our location was acceptable for the plot but we would have preferred to have a more suitable location for filming, one that both fitted in with the plot and was quite enough to avoid background noise.

One of the major problems we had to overcome was our plot, after having designed our scripts and storyboards for our initial script we began filming, we decided we didn't think this plot and overall theme was strong or engaging in any aspect so we began to write a new story and divided up the roles amongst us.

We also faced minor problems throughout like finding a suitable time to film and keep the continuity correct throughout, class change was also a minor hinderance as it prohibited when we could or couldn't film. We overcame this by putting in more effort as a team and working harder to think of better ideas and achieve what we wanted.

FILMING:

In our filming, we found that throughout filming nothing went significantly wrong, our best features were the use of lighting whether artificial or available and the use indoor and outdoor spaces and their environment.

We did use a variety of different shots and angles, each with a desired outcome such as the two shot and the over the shoulder shot being used to convey a conversational tone to the audience. or the various angles such as the low and high shot, as well as the aerial and panning shot are used to increase the tension and drama of the chase scene. Close ups were also used to divert focus to the subject and as a result makes the audience more likely to pay attention to the events that are occurring.

We think the choice of shot does matter in most instances, some times we had a choice of shots or techniques that we could have used, the may have been multiple shots that we could have used for each scene, so it was just a matter of picking our favourite.

We think we did fairly well in camera techniques, subject placement, and framing shots. We had no problems with this aspect of filming.

We followed the 180 degree rule throughout.

Our continuity in our final outcome was very successful, but we did run into a few problems throughout such as shirt sleeve lengths varying in each scene, shirts being untucked and tucked in certain scenes. We had to make sure hair length was continuous throughout and that sound was not disrupted during class change when the background noise of people could be heard.

We feel that mise en scene, lighting and sound where the best aspects of our film.

EDITING:

Editing really helped us spot any flaws in continuity in our filming, this allowed us to go back and film the respective scene.

We did run into a few problems with editing, such as certain scenes not appearing in final cut, heavy lagging and the timing of sound and transactions as a result.

We learned a lot from this, especially when regarding editing such as : how to include and edit intros and credits, colour match, cutting and slicing scenes, adding and splitting music and how to include transactions.

The only problems we encountered with editing was one scene kept on disappearing from final cut, so we had to repeat the import process and lag, with the timing being off as a result of image and sound transactions.

We feel that we had a lot of success with editing, from the use of colour match to give a more aged atmospheric feel, to sound and image cross cutting transactions for comedic effect.

CONCLUSION:

We have learned a lot from this experience that we indeed to use to our advantage next time, such as: we need to be more prepared from the start, to make sure we have a strong start with a good plot and engaging manner in which its portrayed.

We also need to make sure each person in our group has an allocated role and that they stick to it and work hard throughout. We need to also be prepared to put in good effort to get scenes filmed and re-filmed if need be, and may need to film at times outside of school.

We should get actors more suited to the respective role and make sure they know their lines and actions that the need for each scene, and also we need to make sure we have a more suitable place to film scenes.