Evaluation

In conclusion,

I think the finished result of the film was okay, there were a few faults in it and maybe a few things that could have been changed. Even though we were creating our film to be funny, there was one extreme zoom in that could have been taken again as it was blurry and not great condition. We could of added a few more shot types when 'fighting' the vending machine. I also think the plot of the film was very weak and someone who was new to watching it wouldn't really know what was happening. Perhaps if we could make a film that was longer then we could have added in some more detail about the characters. But we had already gone over the time limit.

We have lots of pans, panning from low to high, to left to right. I think panning is almost the most effective shot because it covers a vast area of what the audience is supposed to be looking at. As a group I think the shots used were effective and best fitted for what the film presented. Other shots included; slight zooms, extreme close ups, truck in shot, medium shot, extreme zoom in, over the shoulder shot and a full shot of the area. Most of these were repeated a few times.

The plot of the film is that Laurence tries to get a bottle of water out of the vending machine but the vending machine does nothing. He gets annoyed with it. His friend, Adam, just happens to walk past it, so he comes over to help Laurence out. They begin beating the vending machine up. Adam goes to a tree, summons Scarce, with a double upload. Then Lewis, (interpreting) Scarce comes out, then they both run back the way Adam came and back to the vending machine where Laurence is waiting. They all begin beating up the machine and finally the bottle of water Laurence wanted drops out and he walks away as if nothing happened.

I was assigned to do the storyboard, which was okay because I could create one in a few minutes, but I also think I could have spent more time on it to make the sketches better. The first story board made, was just a rough idea to what we could do. We then created a second one, which was more alike to the film. Yet we still had to change a few things. As the film time was actually a minute longer than first expected.

The way we allocated each role sort of came naturally. Personally I preferred to stay behind the camera and the boys were acting, Adam unwillingly. Even though there was only four of us, I feel like it still looked pretty good as a finished result. There was a tiny issue of lack of continuity as the film was filmed over different days so they wore different clothes. As the boys were the actors, I feel all of them did a good job of acting the part, although there were a few times when they all looked directly at the camera. Even though we had a few bloopers and laughing fits, the scenes we used actually worked well and flowed throughout. I also think looking back at what we created, the plot isn't that great. If someone was to watch it without knowing who 'Scarce' is then the film would come across as weird.

Our roles all varied in different stages of creating the film. I created the storyboard and the initial plot as some background information, I also helped and gave my opinion when creating the film and editing it. Lewis changed the plot slightly to add 'Scarce' into it. As we were making our Depict film funny we thought it would fit and make it better. Lewis acted in the film, and did some of the editing, he actually showed us how to do it as well. Adam was an actor in the film, although at first he didn't want to. And he didn't want to be the main role, he ended up being the opposite to what he wanted. Although it took many takes to try and get it on point without laughter it was worth it, because looking back at it the acting was good. Adam also did some of the paperwork, I think he did the shot list. Laurence, starred in the film too. He was also one of the main, "main" characters. All the acting from all the boys was good. Laurence took part in the editing and edited and downloaded all of the files onto the Mac. At first, the group wasn't really communicating, but I think throughout the process we formed more as a group and actually produced group work as a team.

For the deadline we had to finish filming for, we actually finished on the day. I was a bit worried we wouldn't be able to finish on time because the paper side of this project wasn't uploaded to our blogs when it should have been as the storyboard had to be changed. But overall, I am happy with what we created.