Evaluation

How have you worked at different stages?

I think I worked well at all the different stages in the process of making a film. I came up with the main idea for our film and played a big part in planning, from creating the storyboard to choosing locations. However I don't feel I did well with filming, as I was put in charge of the camera and I had never used it before. I think it helped having a plan with a basic plot of the film split into stages because otherwise we would have had to improvise too much and the story wouldn't have made sense.

What problems and successes did you experience and what are the strengths and weaknesses?

In this project our aim was to convey the aftermath of a 'storm'; we decided this would be a fight. We started by brainstorming ideas, this didn't turn out very well as we couldn't think of many ideas. We decided to chose the first one we came up with.
We then created a story board with our 10 shot plans. We did not stick to this so i had to re-do my storyboard, as it was hard to stick to it on the day. We also wrote down locations and times of our filming which we did not stick to, as our original place for filming had no passers by to act, so finding a new place with actors stalled time so we did not stick to our time sheet. When filming, we realised the camera we used did not have a black and white function. we needed this to portray a CCTV shot, so in our film it is hard to understand. we also wanted to use in-camera effects to show the audience when the shot was a flashback, but couldn't so the film is confusing to watch. I think another weakness for our film was the acting, as it was not serious enough and did not match the plot.

What influenced your work?
As we were given a title, 'after the storm', we were very limited as to what we could do, so this influenced our work. We were also only allowed 10 shots in our film, so we worked the film around that.

What have you learnt?I have learned about all the different camera angles and shots. I have also learned how to work a camera, and how to get the film uploaded onto a computer. Next I would like to learn how to edit a film as I feel this would have improved our work as we could use the effects we needed.