Evaluation

At the beginning of the single camera production we had to research different type of films and help with an idea of a short film we were going to do. After we thought of a short film idea we start planning our short film. Some things which we added into the film planning was the plot, genre and if its single or multi strand narrative.

After we have completed our film planning we got into groups an decided on which idea we were doing to be producing. When we decided on the idea which we were doing we started completing our pitch which we were going to show to the producer who agreed on the idea with us. We started completing our group planning such as storyboard and our health and safety sheet of anything that could happen and how we will be ale to prevent it. Once all of that was done we had to create a production diary of all of the shots we were going to film on the day and we had to do that every time we filmed any shots. When we filmed the footage we transferred all of it onto our computers so we were able to look at the footage and start editing. The contributions I did within in this film was that I did some of the paperwork and i am also the director and an actor within our film. I was the main actor within the film.

 I didn't talk within it as we were going to do voiceovers for  few parts within the film. The short film is suppose to be a comedy and with no voice and just sound it would be more funny. Other things i did within the production was putting all of the our clips onto the computers so we were both able to get the footage to edit.  The postproduction decisions we done were some of the locations because we weren't able to film within as we didn't get time and also we didn't get the permission to film in there. The location was the science labs. Instead of filming within the science lab we filmed in another classroom and then wrote on the board what class this was and the students were studying. We filmed with different shots and also a few extra shots which we thought would fit within the short film. The film should be at least 4 minutes so 3 mins but edited very well. Another decision we made was using a few students and not too many because everyone will be doing the same thing but also as it's the last school but also an all girls school.

Even though we made a few changes I believe they were appropriate and that it has helped our video. Also some other changes which we made are the props which we intensionally were going to use but some we didn't use and we changed a few things instead such as a text book. I believe that my film was quite successful compared to the intensional plan because shots which we filmed were good and that it matched with what we wanted as planned on the storyboard. My original expectation with editing the film I thought it would be better than how I planned and also with some of the sound which I have i couldn't find the correct sound effects which i wanted so i had to improvise with what they had on the internet. Also i edited how it was planned on the storyboard and the plot is linear so it was beginning to end. The film examples we have studied were better than what i have edited because it was made more clear of what is happening but also it had suspense because no one knew what was going to happen next and how it was going to end.

I think that the audience reaction would be that they wonder what will happen next but also they will laugh because it is suppose to be a comedy for example the teacher sleeping in class while the students are studying. The short film isn't emotional but you might be few scares and you might be confused as they might not know what is going on. All of the lighting we filmed during the day so the footage is good and it isn't blurry.

The genre is comedy and horror but it is more on the comedy side. The mise n scene is in the classroom, corridor but also inside and outside of the college which the settings are. There were a few problems while we were filming because we were filming along the corridor and loads of people were trying to walk past which slowed down the process of us filming and also other people are also filming in the classroom we needed to film at so we had to find a different time to film which was annoying to us. Not all of the time we had the costumes so we had to compromise with what we had on the day. Overall I believe the short film went well but i believe the editing i could of done better.