Self Evaluation on Short Film

Self Evaluation


In the task of the short clip, I took on the role of directing, so I was making sure we had enough shots to fit the criteria of 3 empty shots, 2 low angle shots, 2 high angle shots and 3 extreme close up's. I think that I done my job quite well as I was checking off what shots we needed to do and what shots we had already done, but unfortunately when it came to exporting the clips over to the laptop we lost a few vital ones which pulled our piece together, so I should've double checked all the shots we took were on the laptop before taking out the memory card, even after it saying it had successfully moved all clips into the folder.

When actually filming I was in charge of the camera for the majority of the shots, purely because I could picture what I wanted so it was easier for me to take the shots rather than directing the shots in which I pictured, but at the same time still giving everyone else in my group the chance to film.

When editing the piece we had produced, I took to the editing first and started off the short clip with what we had pictured as a group, I got the hang off the software quite easily and knew what I was doing, if I could go back and do something different I would not spend so much time on the editing of the clips but more on the sounds of the clips, as it was a case of we don't have much time so we had to rush to get something done, and the sounds we recorded we didn't have enough time to line them up with the clips we had so carefully edited together.

When it came to the final piece, I think other than the sound the piece looked visually good, we even added black spaces to create suspense on what to happen next, which worked in our favour as initially we were going to have clips in the spaces but due to the exportation fail we lost our clips, but the black spaces worked just as well and made the final piece effective.