Term 3: Reflection/ Evaluation

Reflection/ Evaluation:

1. Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming of your project

2. Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project

3. Are you satisfied with your film process so far? How could you improve this?

4. Have you managed your time effectively?

5. If you could start again what would you do differently?

ALL OF THIS WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY

1. We have encountered few problems and hiccups during the post-production and during film. We have caused a disturbance with our CM group making this difficult for us to work as a team. This has made some members of the group uneasy about this awkward situation, but we are trying to sort this matter out.
This disturbance hasn’t disturbed the process of filming, but has disturbed the interruption of making decisions together as a group and figuring out the problems with our film.
This has only been happening for a few weeks and everyone in the group has been doing their own editing and no one has really made any communication about what scenes or wither we want to redo some sequences. But again the communication isn’t that brilliant through out the group.

2. The skills and the techniques that I’ve learnt are different from the way the camera is being used in film and how to film a movie, with the different techniques of angles, shots and planning. The pre-production stage was very interesting in knowing how he ‘real’ world plans each movie in depth to how they sort everything out before they start film. I suppose I’ve learnt a lot from not really sticking to how the result in your head is going to be when you start shooting because there can be a few alterations through a crew/team, even though it’s your story that’s being made.

3. I am proud of what we’ve done in the filming process so far. We have done most things as we discussed through pre-production, but there was a few pot holes through shooting as these were problems that couldn’t be solved through the shooting such as the weather, people in the of shooting and the lighting. But overall the filming process that we have achieved conducted through out the day.
We can’t improve on the problems we had because they are natural incidences that couldn’t be solved and we can’t control the weather or the problems with the people in the way, but we had some slight issues with the lighting. The way we’ve could’ve solved it was to try out few shots with using different lighting, but as we had a limited amount of time through out the day we didn’t take the time to do that. As we know now, if we could fix this problem then we would re-shoot the takes and find the solution to the problem.

4. I believe we have managed our time very effectively, considering one of teammates couldn’t make it to both shooting days due to other commitments. Our time management was very productive due to early shooting before our fellow classmates because we were excited to start the filming and we couldn’t decide what day we should start shooting. This decision for us to start early made us ahead of our classmates, having more time to re-shoot takes and having more time and letting our teacher see what needed improving through out our film.

5. As I mentioned this last term, if I had the choose in starting this over again I would differently change the story to someone else’s story so we wouldn’t be able to do mine. Other than that in the way we were filming I believe that we should’ve slowed our shooting process done because we were all over the place and we didn’t everything so fast. For the scenes I would have changed the family scenes e.g. kitchen and end. Also the scenes with Letty and Susie in it and finally the plot were Susie gets beat in up; I would have changed the beating up scene from the park to a different location. This would have made the idea to the film different from the concept of using the inspiration of the film.

Shots List

• KITCHEN:
o Eye level- running into the house
o Low to High- to Shelby (medium) to Me
o Low to Eye level- running away

• PARK:
o Bird’s eye view- running to park
o Low level- swinging
o Low level- Shelby behind me
o High- beating
o High- bloody face
o Eye level- beating up guys running away

• HOUSE:
o Eye level- mum phoning the police
o High level- dad comforting mother

• GARDEN:
o High level- Susie lying on the trampoline
o Eye level- girl walking into the house

• INSIDE THE HOUSE:
o Medium angle- wondering the house.
o The girl is wondering the house. No one is the house because they’re at her funeral.
o High angle- sees Letty on the sofa
o Eye level- Susie walking over to Letty
o Eye level/ medium- conversation between Letty and Susie
o Eye level- family comes inside the house from the front
o High angle- family walks to the dinning table
o Eye level- Susie walks over to them
o Medium- family talking

• OUTSIDE:
o High angle- Letty and Susie seating on the steps talking
o Eye level- Sister walking outside
• Sister is patting the dog, looks up to see Susie with Letty runs inside the house

• SUSIE'S ROOM:
o Stay's the Same

• FEW YEARS LATER
o Eye level- mother preparing dinner
o High angle- sister is setting the table up
o Eye level- family seating around the table
o Mother looks around the table and says, “Everything will be alright”
o Outside
o Eye level- Susie and Letty talking about how everything will be all right and walks off.