Evaluation
For this assignment, we had to
create a short 90 second film to be entered into a DepicT! ‘Can you do it in 90
seconds?’ competition. For our short film, we were put into groups and then we
had to come up with a topic and the genre that our film was going to be. In the
end, we came up with the idea to do a horror film as everyone in our group
favoured the horror genre. Before the filming procedure began, we had to
complete all the pre-production paperwork such as the storyboards, risk assessments,
shot lists and so on to ensure that when it came to filming we knew what we had
to do. As most of the people in our group wanted to film rather than act, we
had to get some extra people to be in our film so that we had the right amount
of actors that we needed.
When we began the filming
procedure, we had to make sure that we were sticking to the pre-production
schedule as they had to match. During the filming process we had some issues as
there were often people missing during the lessons, which meant that we had to
delay filming and therefore put us behind our originally planned schedule. We
also had a problem with finding actors. This is because the people that had
originally Said they were happy to appear in the film actually couldn’t film in
the times that we wanted them to as they were either in a lesson or had other
commitments. Another trouble we had was
finding someone who was willing to get fake blood on their face. A few people
that we asked refused to be in our film as they didn’t particularly want to get
covered in fake blood. However, when we finally found the actors who were
prepared to be in our film, we got the filming done and we then managed to
stick to our schedule. After getting through the complications we managed to
successfully get filming. Most of our group had a go at filming and we all took
it in turns to film different scenes as it gave us all a chance to have a go
with the camera. I found that getting a chance to use the camera gave me a
wider understanding of how to film to a high standard and it allowed me to work
out some of the clever things that I could do with the camera that would make
the quality and appearance of our film as good as possible.
During the editing process I
found that it didn’t go as well as we planned. This was because we had very
little time to edit due to the problems with the making of the film. Additionally,
not many people in our group contributed in the editing process, so therefore
it gave us an even smaller chance to get it done in the time and to a high
standard. I feel that if our group had worked more efficiently and made more of
a group effort our video would have turned out a lot better. However, overall I
think the idea of our film was really creative and we managed to show a clear
and clever storyline for the audience.
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