Evaluation

After hours and hours of looking at our short film on the screen, I had been starting to worry that it wasn’t looking as good as I wanted it too. After seeing it during our screening today on the big screen, I was really pleased with the outcome. Although we kept our storyline very simple, we spent hours and hours of our own time, making sure everything was cut at just the right time, making sure the audio was all on the same level and just cleaning up the final piece in general. Overall I would say our film met our original criteria we set out at the beginning of the year. Before I had pitched the idea of doing something similar to the 3 minute wonders, I originally had a vision that our short film would include students from the fashion department as I thought it would be something very contemporary and up to date. I would say that the course our actors study is the only major change that happened over the course of the 2 months we had to film. I personally think that this worked out for the better as the students we chose all studied on the same campus as us and TV class, which made getting in contact with them all very easy. After discussing what kind of students we wanted to use in our project, ease of access played a big role in which we were going to choose. Although I personally knew fashion students around my halls of residence, it proved a lot harder than expected to try and find a time where we would both be free to shoot the interviews. Fashion has a very heavy work load to it to which we almost found it unfair to add any more work to their daily lives. As far as roles went, none of us really ended up with our designated roles by the end of it. To begin with we only had 2 members of the group which we had given designated roles to each other, when we was introduced with a third member, we had to split the roles up even more which made things a little harder to manage. We had a few hiccups along the way with one member of our group letting us down a few times by not turning up on more than one occasion but thankfully when we was altogether, everything seemed to get done. As a whole, I would say our short movie was successful. A few things I would have changed would have been to have a more detailed story bored as during the editing process, I found we lacked shots that would have finished each of the student’s stories off nicely. Another thing I would take into consideration next time would be that at the end of the day our film is what matters and we should not be too worried about taking up people’s time. I felt very conscious whenever I needed to film someone and whether they felt like we were taking up too much of their time; hence why we went for a simple story line so that we could make the most out of it during the editing process. Despite the issues we faced, our group put together a piece that exceed original expectations.