Evaluation
Teamwork during
Pre-Production:
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Describe any problems
or difficulties your group encountered while developing your plot, concept and
characters;
Some difficulties that my group and I
encountered while developing our plot was that we planned too much of our
movie. We planned a whole episode of a film instead of only 4 minutes of a
movie, which meant when we realized what we did, we had to go back and cut lots
of scenes out.
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Explain whether your
group effectively used the pre-production and planning templates to help refine
each idea prior to filming;
I did the props and costumes list,
while Holly and Nikky worked on the shot list and we all worked out the plot
and each scene. We all contributed to the pre-production planning and all
worked together out figuring out the scenes for our film with equal amount of
import.
·
Describe whether your
group made effective use of their time in class during pre-production. (Did
each group member; contribute; have set tasks at all times; know their role in
the group etc.)
I think that our group could have used
the pre-production time more effectively and put more work into our planning. I
think this because when we got to filming our movie, we were a little
un-organized at times. This however, didn’t affect us that much with our film,
but could have been better if we were more organized.
·
List some steps your group
could (or did) implement to improve in this area;
Some steps we did to improve in our
difficulties was to work as a team and discuss all of our thoughts and then
decide which one we all agreed sounded the best. We did this when we had to cut
our scenes down, deciding which scenes would have been the best to fit the
short film. I think we could have planned more before filming our movie. This
would of helped out a lot more if we were more organized so we didn’t have to
stress about what were doing because we already knew on the day.
Teamwork during Production:
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Discuss how your
group used storyboards, shot-lists, prop-lists and a shooting schedule to
assist during the filming and decision making process;
The prop-list came in handy because
then we all knew what to bring into class and what props and costumes we needed
to bring for that specific day. The prop-list made us more organized as to what
to bring and what wasn’t needed on the day of shooting. The shot-list also came
in handy while filming our movie because then while filming, we knew what to do
and how we wanted to film each cut and scene. The shot list did sometimes
however change according to the lighting at the time of filming seeing as
though sometimes it was better to have a different angle than the one said on
the shot-list sheet.
·
Did your group
experience any organizational issues during filming, (i.e. members who were
absent or did not contribute; finding suitable times to film; forgetting
shot-lists, costumes; not booking equipment etc.) How did you manage or work
around these difficulties?
We did have a day where I forgot my
costume and therefor, making us film another scene instead which I wasn’t
included. Other than that one-day, we were all relatively organized for every
lesson and came prepared to film if we knew we had to that day. A lot of the
filming days Jazmin was absent, but this fortunately didn’t effect our filming
that sever seeing as though she was only in a small scene because we knew she
would be away on those filming days.
·
Did your group
complete all shots as detailed in your planning?
All the shots, which were in our
shot-list, were all completed and added into our film. However, our planning
sheet, which contained the plot and scenes, didn’t all get put into the film.
This was because a lot of the things put onto the sheet were to difficult or didn’t
fit well in what our specific scenes required.
Discuss your individual
feelings about the rough edit:
·
Are you group satisfied
with the final result?
I am
satisfied with the final result of our film. I do however think we could have
changed a few more effects and used different contrasts in some scenes and
could have done that if we had more time, but other then a few simple things,
it’s a relatively good film seeing the time frame we had to plan, film and edit
it in.
·
Does the rough edit meet the
time requirements for this task? If not, describe why? (i.e did you expect it
would be longer? is it incomplete? etc.)
I think near the end of it we ran out of time and
could have put a lot more work into the editing of the film. I do believe that
the movie can be better if we put more time into it. I did expect the film to
be longer when it was altogether but it only came out at around 2:15 -
2:30mins.
·
Does your film require
additional scenes, or reshoots?
Our film doesn’t need to have any more additional
scenes to it but I don’t think, if we have the time to film it, put another
scene in there to make it a little longer and maybe, more understandable.
·
Would like to change
any aspects of your film?
I don’t
think there are any aspects that I would like to change in my film. I do
however, think that we all need to put in a little more effort in the draft to
make the final copy better and more clear as to when there is a flashback or
when there is a dream.
·
If you could start the
project again what would you do differently?
If I could start the project again, I
would spend a lot more time in the pre-production, planning the whole film much
better so we all have a really good understanding of what we all need to do and
how we think the film should be filmed. I would keep in mind the time we have
to get the shots filmed and then adding them all together to edit the whole
film.
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Did planning and
filming take more or less time than you anticipated? Define why?
I think both our planning and our
filming took a lot more time than we’d expected. This is because I think, we
didn’t realized the time frame we had at the very start and didn’t get straight
into our planning when the project was set to us. Next time I’ll be sure to
keep in mind the time frame of the whole project and to plan ahead and to make
sure that the filming part of the project is planned out very well so we can
get straight into filming the quicker which would be a better benefit for us.
Consider whether you
undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you
provided enough evidence to support your work? (Does the work on your
blog/journal represent 5 weeks’ worth of work).
I haven’t kept up to date with my
evaluations and therefor didn’t provide a lot of evidence to show what had been
happening throughout the filming of our movie. Next time I’ll try and keep up
to date with all my reflections so Mr. Andrews knows what’s happening every
week with how we’re going filming and how we’re going working as a team on this
project.
