Production Evaluation

1. What do you feel is the most important area of learning that you have taken from this assignment? Look at all the production stages and ask your self which areas of this assignment have given you a new way of thinking or approaching you future projects. (50 Words)

Throughout this assignment I have improved my editing skills on the Macs. At first our footage wasn’t long enough, but then we were able to lengthen it with credits and subtitles, to explain to the audience exactly what was happening. We all took turns editing our footage, then we managed to break our trailer into three parts to make it fair.

2. From your finished project what parts are you most happy with? With the same level of consideration what areas do you feel you need to improve on? (50 Words)

I was most happy with the finished project because I think it looked professional. eg. Because of the font we used for the credits made it look ‘gory’, which is suitable for our trailer (Horror). If I wanted to improve on the footage I would put one of the clips into slow motion.

3. How well do you think you and your group worked in achieving all the goals that were set by the assignment brief? (50 Words)

Me, Charlotte and Raina worked well in a group because we all seemed to understand each other, but also be able to disagree and get over something. We didn’t set any specific goals at the beginning of the task, but as I said, overall our group had good teamwork.

4. What would you change or do differently in the next production? (50 Words)

In my next production I would like to take more than one shot of everything, because when it comes to editing I can put parts of clips together. As I have learnt from this assignment, it looked a bit ‘choppy’. We all agreed it didn’t make sense so we broke it up with credits/ subtitles.

5. How does your trailer fit with the look and style of a real example that you looked at in research, think about how your trailer looks and how it is edited (50 Words)

Our horror trailer obviously wasn’t as professional as the ones we looked at in our research, but we used some of their techniques/styles. Such as using credits and quick, sharp shot changes. I think the lighting used was too bright, and not ‘eary’ enough for horror, but it was difficult as we could only film during college hours (Daytime).