At the planning stage of this exercise, I think I came up with a few good ideas but could have developed them further to really get a good variety of ideas to choose from. While doing the storyboard we included camera angles and speech for the actors we could have included some more detain on directions. Although we used our initiative and used what we found around us as props we could have thought this out a bit more and brought in some props which might have made the film more realistic. I think everyone accepted and embraced their roles well. Daisy made a good director following the storyboard and picking us up on anything we could improve. Olly made a good cameraman really thinking about angles and effects and taking constructive input from the team to produce an effective film. I think with no experience the acting was pretty dire it was hard to concentrate I think next time research needs to be done on how to act.
Problems within our work were maybe we could have chosen a better location although the college building had everything we needed it may have looked better if we had had more of a run-down building. Another problem was the rooms we chose, we did not check they were free before we used them and interruptions sometimes got in the way or affected the end result. We also didn't think about timings of each shot as much as we should have. We accidentally filmed our first three shots in one go and should have thought about how we were shooting beforehand to prevent this happening. Strengths within our work were the camera angles and shots we achieved. I think these went quite well and improved our end result.
Our work was influenced by the people in the group. We all wanted to achieve suspense in the film an so all input ideas to help this. We were also influenced by events that have happened in our lifetimes and recent films and documentaries. Certainly the twin towers and recent films about extreme world-ending weather came into all our minds during our mind-mapping of the title "after the storm". The purpose of our work I believe is to experiment with all aspects of film making as you do not realise the planning that goes into making a film when you just watch one. It has shown me there is a lot more to film making than I assumed and It's not as easy as you would assume.
I have learnt I need to research a lot and improve research methods to produce a good film. Also I need to structure my time and planning. From doing this project I have learnt how to work with equipment I am not familiar with.
I think my team worked well together although our film could have done with more structure as it wasn't as clear as we had hoped. The finished film was alright and we got all the camera angles and shots that we planned. next time we do a film like this I would consider.
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