Post-Production Evaluation

The problems that I encountered towards the technical parts were deciding on what shots to use in my final cut, because we had two completely different views of what different shots were going to be. The first day of shooting was different from the second day because of the weather, the way we filmed and the we acted because we had a better understanding on what we were suppose to be doing. No the shooting was a problem but deciding on what shots to put in the final cut. There were some shots that I used from the first day or shooting and the second day, so I had to incorporate both shots in together so that they may look natural. We also did shots over and over again because some of the group members didn’t feel comfortable in that shot so we had to do it over again, which gave us lots of options to choose from which was good in away. Another problem that I had was putting the shots together. Well it isn’t mainly a problem but an announce as such. For the editing part I didn’t really had any difficulties because I understood what I needed to be done, but the only thing about editing is that it takes lots of time and it’s pretty annoying putting these shots together. I had a little struggle with making my soundtrack in fact. I didn’t know what to do and I got so confused in picking out the loops. The first week we had received our second part of our assignment, I didn’t know what to do because there was so many loops and I didn’t know which loop sounded right in my film so I just played around with putting different loops together. Once I was confidant with all the loops I had to start on my soundtrack and in the end it sounded pretty good, to me that is. Through the middle of doing my soundtrack I really enjoyed doing it and it was pretty fun making a soundtrack for a film, even though I preferred composing an original score of scratch but to be honest if I had enough time I would do it and if I could be bothered doing it.

No I don’t believe that I had any missing files, but all my files were so mixed up that I was totally lost or confused about all of them. I did want Mr Andrews had told me to do, and that is label the files, which I did but I still got confused. During time went on, I got to know how I labelled things and where I placed documents in different files, so eventually I understood what I was going in the way I was placing my documents or files

For my group work, there weren’t any problems that we had which was good. Just before we had to do our soundtrack we resolved our situation, which was good for the group and for myself. I didn’t like having group arguments and it didn’t suit well with the rest of the group. As Mr Andrews had said, you don’t work with everyone, you just needed to endure it and get on with it. So I didn’t that, but than I thought that I was sick and tired of fighting and things were resolved. This whole argument was during the editing stage, so we resolved things before we started the soundtrack.

I thought that my pre-production did help a lot because it helped with designing our film and planning out what we wanted to do for the film. With having storyboards, the scripted, shot-lists and list of what we need to do and lists that we needed to make our film successful. These lists and planning skills really helped us with our creation of our film. The post-production didn’t really help us a lot because we knew what we wanted to do and we knew what scenes that we were going to be placed together, in our overall film. But for our final cut we had an image of what our film was going to be to us. So we didn’t really do much planning for the post-production schedule. The rough edits didn’t assisted in the editing process, because as I said before we had an idea of what our film is going to be and we imagine our version how we are going to interpret this film. So no the planning for the post-production was that useful but the pre-production planning was helpful. Strange I know but that’s just me!

The time-management issues that I encountered were based choosing what program to create my edit on. Firstly I had originally to do it on iMovie, but when Mr Andrews showed us there was a better and much easier version I didn’t know what to do because I was comfortable with iMovie and I didn’t really know Final Cut so I was comfortable with it. I had a trouble decided what program to do it on so that process took longer than I expected, but not that much longer because I knew that I had to start on my editing. But another annoying thing was that I had all ready finished my editing on iMovie and when Mr Andrews said that Final Cut was better I had to start again, which was most annoying. So that time-management situation was a problem because I had to start again with my editing on a different program. Plus I had to learn how to use this new program because I didn’t and that process took quiet a while too, so my chose in choosing a program to create my edit was a long but necessary one.

As I said before I didn’t really need the EDL of the Sound Design because I knew want to show in my film and I knew what fixed well together so I didn’t really need the EDL. I did it anyways so I wouldn’t get in trouble but I didn’t really refer to it mainly. I know that I should’ve referred to it but when you know your film from back to front you know how the film goes and matches well together. For the Sound Design, I don’t believe that I have ever done it because I thought that I didn’t really need it because I have all ready done my soundtrack and I thought that I wouldn’t need the time code, the dialogue/sound FX or the music required such as the style, volume and the tempo. I didn’t believe that I needed to write these things down, but I just came up with my soundtrack without using the Sound Design template, but I think that if I had used it I don’t believe that it would’ve helped me in anyway possible because I don’t see the point.

I believe that I took adequate and detailed reflections throughout my pre and post-production schedule. I did most of my reflections for every lesson that we had, but this term I just released that we are only suppose to be doing 1 or 2 reflections each week not one everyday. So I had extra hard work for myself, but sometimes I didn’t mind doing the reflections because most of the time they keep me on track with what I’ve done and what I need to be doing. No I don’t think I have provided enough evidence to support my work. The only evidence that I have shown is my word in the reflections I have done. These are the only evidence, but I could post some images of what I’ve been doing and what I have been research. But I don’t believe that there is anything else that I can do because most of the work that I have done, or about to about to do are set in a program and it takes a while to download and post images on my blog. But I’m guessing the sentence that I have just written is more of ‘I can’t be bothered’ sentences and I have to agree, so maybe for my next assessment I will try and post some picture on my blog about the websites and stuff. For not showing the evidence that I have done in class, but I have shown evidence in planning out my film in designing lists and templates. That’s the only evidence that I have displayed on my blog. I believe that my blog looks like a whole terms work by the evidence in templates and lists and reflections. Not to sound selfish (but I do), I’m really happy with the progress of my blog and the way I organise my time in doing these activities.

SKILLS:
1. Editing a film by putting different shots together
2. Using different programs that I haven’t used e.g. Final Cut and iMovie
3. Learning how to use GaragBand properly, by using the loops and making a soundtrack from loops

TECHNIQUES:
1. Remember where you put your files
2. Label your files and put them in their right place
3. When re-recording the voices, speak louder or change the volume to the program so you can hear what the voices are saying

TRICKS:
1. No tricks that are used

I am sort of satisfied with my final result. As I said in one of my previous reflections or evaluations, about what I would change if I had the chance. In case if you don’t feel like going back to my blog and looking for the paragraph stating that I would change this and that I well tell it again. If I had the choice I would change the storyline and change the story. If I had the chance to change the story than everything would be different, but as the story goes, I can’t do that. So if I had the chance to pick someone else’s story in my group than I would have. I didn’t really except that my story would end up like this. It sounds mean, but I didn’t really except that it would turn out like this. I know you can’t accept everything to be 100%, but it wasn’t what I imagined. Overall the outcome of the film was good in the way my crewmembers held their ground by involving themselves in the film as actors and part of the crew. I believe that it did come out okay, but there could have been quiet a few parts that needed to be checked and changed, but for our first trail we did pretty well!

As I said before I would change the story but as it says ‘aspects’ I would change some scenes like the park scene, where Susie gets beat up, the kitchen scene, the part where she wakes up and she goes downstairs and talks to Letty. But I’m guessing we could’ve done these chances, but none of my group could be bothered redoing it again and everyone thought that it was good as it was. Overall I would change the aspects to the original script because I believed that the original script didn’t linger on to the movie The Lovely Bones, but when they choose to do my film they changed the script around and it made it sound and look more of the movie of The Lovely Bones. This was a problem for me because I got my IDEA from the movie I didn’t want the actually storyline come from the movie but as I didn’t know this at that time I accepted the chance and went along with it. But to be honest if they kept to the original script it would be similar to The Lovely Bones.

I think I’m repeating myself, but I think that I’m not reading the questions ahead of myself as well. I believe that this questioned is answered in the last two previous questions. :D I’m getting ahead of myself!!