Evaluation

Evaluation

This post will be regarding my evaluation for media. I worked in a group of 3 with Ben Brazier and Shaun Quilter. I will comment on what I believed we did well, I believe we did poorly, problems that occured throughout the making of the film and planning of the film and more.

First of all, Me, Ben and Shaun planned out the film and had to think up ideas for a good cliffhanger-type film. Initally our plan was a Horror/Thriller type film, which would keep the audience engrossed in the film and wondering what would happen next. Our inital idea was a story involving 3 boys wondering around in the wood, where the boys would be chased and hear noises. We did some filming and initally the idea was good, however there were a few mistakes in the acting which we could have changed. However, Tom Baker who was doing the acting with us could not continue acting and had to join his group to film his movie. Unfortionatly, we could not find another actor who could take his place, so we had to re film.

Our 2nd idea wasnt really planned. Me, Shaun and Ben attempted to be ourselves as we changed the storyline to boys who were joking about in the woods and then Shaun would go missing. However, even though some of the material was good, the camera had problems as we had poor sound quality and the video had several lines so we could not watch the video back and not make a movie out of it. We decided the Idea was poor and decided to make another idea.

Our 3rd attempt was a conversation between 3 boys outside a classroom. Our idea was very good, however we did not plan and again we made it up off the top of our heads much like the 2nd idea. I believe however this could have been a good film, but the filming on it was very choppy and we made alot of mistakes whilst acting which we could not edit. We took out alot of scenes which had mistakes and the film only lasted about 25 seconds which was far too short and most of the scenes were very choppy. Watching other groups we believed our work was not up to standard at all. Once again we decided to refilm.

Our 4th attempt fortionatly worked well, Me, Shaun and Ben decided to create a deal type film happening in a school classroom. Me and Ben did not act in this film and only did the filming and Ben did the editing and we asked Amber to do some acting for us. The film was not planned well, only briefly and we got about 2 mins of footage which enough to work on. The acting in the 4th attempt was fantastic which very few mistakes, making the editing very simple. When we went to edit it, we only had to take out about 40 seconds of outakes, which we included at the end for comic value.

However, we experienced problems when we uploaded the video to Youtube. We uploaded the video to Youtube, however we removed it due to making a few errors in the credits and not including music in the credits. However, the computer that we worked on was very problematic and when we attemted to upload again, we could not log onto the computer as it would just freeze. The Computer was then stripped, therefore we lost all out recording and could not find the tape which we recorded on. We could not retrieve the inital video from Youtube either which was a pain. However we could not re-record due to lack of time.

If I was to do this differently again, I would certainly plan the project in far more depth as the inital planning was rushed and we should have taken far less time filming the project as it took us a great deal of time to record 4 times. We also could have gone into other genres in the planning or sub genres and getting creative ideas from other films, like camera angles, suspence, settings etc. We also should have used more sound effects, making the movie more relistic in places in our movie. Overall I believe we did well with the final recording however next time we should learn from our mistakes we can produce a better, more in depth film which can keep the audience engrossed into what is happening and make the audience really enjoy the film they are watching.