Film Evaluation

I worked with Jamie Webster, Emma Dimelow and Becky Baker to create my preliminary task of a short film production. We split the four of up into two small sectors, myself and jamie on acting with a few camera shot ideas, then Emma & Becky controling the cameras movement.

Are main planning was from are storyboard which we created first before we started to film, this took us half a lesson of planning and we kept to the basic guildlines. The short film we created has quite a mysterious feel and i think we were inspired from the jason bourne series of films.

The technology we used was the camera and tripod then the editing from the apple macs, imovie, to crop all clips together and smoothen the transistion.

The factors we looked at were the camera angles such as when i step over the camera. We also looked at lighting in the room we used, we thought it was to bright and decided to shut the blinds and change were the location of the tables were.

We looked at alot of camera effects, such as the 180 degree rule, we had a very good few angles on the finishing handshake which gave our film a good look of professional quality.

The mise en scene on are film was well thought through, we used the camera bag to act that it held some information that was of high importance. We also gave the room a very dark setting as this gives a more secretive feel to the audience, which fits with are formal functions of are genre.

We gave our film a sense of story with two main characters consiting of a henchmen, and a important figure with high hierarchy. This links into the barthez theory of structalism as one event leads to another.

I feel that are film went very well, it was very smoothly put together with good editing. I was very pleased with who i worked with as we all had a serious frame of mind and knew what we had to create. The one thing i would want to improve was the music, as we feel it didnt really need a cheesy track as we feel it would ruin the overall film.

I think this has helped me be inspired for my coursework piece, it gives me a idea of what i can create and in what time frame.