Evaluation
In this project my aim was to work coherently within a team to create a Gothic film portraying Bath in a unique way. I started by researching the Bath Film Office and the Suited and Booted Company finding out what they do. I then met with them to receive our brief and get started with ideas for our project. I found it very helpful working with clients it was good to have a deadline and a purpose to the work we were going to do. The brief we were given was very interesting and I found my team was very exited at the thought of creating a Gothic film with the incentive of a small competition.
“We met with the Suited and Booted film company to learn about what they do and what they are about, I also looked on some of the websites they suggested to get a background knowledge of their role.”
In the initial stages as a team we were coming up with some good ideas but finding it difficult to narrow them down, instead we chose to pick a few ideas and combine them, I wanted to have a romantic love story with similarities to Shakespeare and Ophelia, so we decided to combine this with themes of suicide, madness and insanity.
After this we decided on a rough storyline and wrote it down into a storyboard, this we found got changed and adapted as we went along and developed our ideas further. Writing the film treatment I found fairly easy but wasn’t sure what problems we might come across. This was a learning experience for me and found events occurred which we had not predicted, such as team members leaving halfway through the project. I think we dealt with this fairly well each supporting each other with extras that needed to be done.
I loved our choice of locations especially the Roman Baths as I had only seen images of it before. It was a successful idea but I think we could have got more out of it if we explored different ways of including it in our film. We didn’t get as much footage as I would have liked and if we repeated this project I would suggest two sessions of shooting rather than just one as we were only allowed to film before opening hours.
“I think this session of filming went fairly well although if we did it again I would have filmed a lot more as we didn't have enough to work with as I would have liked.”
Permission to film was fairly easy to get although we came across a few problems with a track in Bear Flat, which we could not find an address for. This was solved on the day as we found a location suitable for what we wanted away from the general public.
While making our film a problem we came across was getting experience with the cameras within a restricted time period, it was fairly easy to lose track of time but we got the hang of it in the end and I found myself pick up the role of time-keeper. I was pleased with how we came together as a team and took it seriously, I was focused throughout and wanted to achieve a good outcome. As an actress I found my role fairly easy as I didn’t have many lines and had to be very still in most of the shots. The Ophelia related shot in the bath was quite difficult as the water was getting cold and it was hard to look dead and not breath for a long period of time. To solve this we got more than one shot, which we could put together, or use, at different points in the film.
I enjoyed editing the film the most I found experimenting with different techniques and transitions very interesting and got a feeling of pride when the film was completed as I had never done this before and I was happy with the outcome. It was fairly difficult to edit the film to start with but we had a good few sessions to learn it and develop your ideas. I had seen a technique before where a clip is broken down into just the important parts to show the passing of time so I decided to recreate this in my film. It was also helpful when I found a shortage of footage such as the overdose scene at the end and could make it seem there was more than there was.
We chose to put forwards my film and Jadine’s film as they were both fully completed and showed two different versions of the same footage. Also my film had sound added to it where as Jadine’s was silent. This showed our film could be understood with or without sound.
“I decided to use this lesson adding sound to the film. If I had more time and freedom with this project I would have tried to find a way to use a song as the soundtrack as I think the use of a song as a soundtrack would have been really effective but for copyright reasons this was not allowed.”
Overall I found I really enjoyed this project and I am happy with the outcome and final version of my film.
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