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).

Task 1 , pre-production, horror trailor

For this task i will need to create a group of upto three people, i have chosen Charlotte and Raina. We have come up with a basic storyline and now need to make a; treatment, storyboard, script, risk assesment sheet and a recky sheet.
So far i have done an analysis sheet for 3 trailors i watched on http://www.imdb.com
this is what i saw:
* Scream
* Phsycho
*Alien

Filming another script - production

Today, me and Amanda were given somebody elses script to act and edit, we chose Amanda to be acting and i me as director.
It was a bit confusing filming another groups script because the storyboard and the script didnt match towards the end, ie, the storyboard missed out a shot that was in the script.
Me and Amanda produced a script and storyboard for Stuart and Richard to film.
We also had to edit another groups footage, this got quite confusing.

Brokeback elvaluation exercise

We were givin a group of clips in imovie which we had to rearrange to make sense (Brokeback Mountain). I created the scene in the hut, at the end of the lesson we watched the film to compare our 'recreation' was correct. Mine wasn't completly right but close enough.
It got quite confusing when the man picked up the phone because one shot we can't see the phone just him talking. And some bits made sense different ways around.
Then i started arranging the shots for 'the bar scene'. I found this one easier becuase the camera isn't taken away from the men, so all i had to do was sort out their conversation so it made sense.

Video editing exercise

in todays lesson i named some clips from a film, rearranged them so they made sense, i decided to edit the hut scene.

Scene storyboard exercise

In todays lesson we a film trailor for 'There will be blood'. And then created a storyboard; we needed to do a minimum of 8 shots for this. Next i need to outline my drawings in a black ink pen (felt tip) then will scan this onto my blogger page.

Video Completed!

Finished! This morning we did the finishing touches to our editing, we put some music to the film, Daniel Powter, Bad Day.
We had one problem with one of our scenes, we could here my voice saying "Action!" so we cut this bit out.
After lunch we came back to finding our video on youtube! ::S
We are about to start watching evryone elses films soon..