Monday 7 February 2011

How could I improve ?

Looking back at our children's film intro, I have remembered many problems we as a group had to solve while the making of our project. Many of these problems and mistakes are quite obvious when you watch our short film. Although there's not a lot we can do now to solve these problems, what I can do is to avoid these in my future projects; in this case our Thriller intro.
Here are some of the areas I should improve on:
Planning and Scripting:
One of the main things we should have concentrated on was on our planning and scripting of our piece. Before we started filming our opening sequence all we had for our planning was a very rough story board containing only about 4 or so scenes with very little information. The problem about doing this is that on the day of the filming you won't have enough information and story to film on and you end up making up what happens as you go along. Because of these we ended up with a very rough and unfinished version of what we had in mind.
Risk Assessment:
This might come in to the section of Planning but I believe one of the main reasons our film didn't end up the way we wanted it to was because we didn't write down a proper risk assessment. On the days of our filming we encountered many unplanned problems some of these being we didn't have the right props and a couple of these days one of our group members was ill. These led to many problems we didn't know how to resolve which meant we had to improvise.
Experience:
For our childrens project we decided to do something we had never done before and film our film with stills using the filming method of stop-motion. We learnt how to work with this method very quickly yet we did have a few problems because we had never used this method before and we were not used to it. For example we had problems with keeping the camera steady which is extremely important and in some cases we moved our characters along the frame too quickly or we took to little pictures in some bits compared to others which made the speed of our film very jumpy.


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