The first thing that occurred to me when starting the main exercise was that we had a new member to the group. This made a huge difference to the groups planning as we had completely new ideas for this short film. As the everyone seemed to become more confident with each other and more confident with the ideas we were coming up with, it made the process fairly quick.
The first thing that we planned was the audience of our film. Originally we were going for an older audience to suit our theme of crime drama. However, as not many members of the group had much interest in drama films we found this quite difficult to plan and moved on to the genre of a ‘chick flick’. Although there is one member of the group who may not be as interested in this genre of film, this helped as we relied on him to stop us when he thought it would come out appearing to corny or over the top.
We then decided to make a draft script of our piece before doing the research so that later on in the process we could add or take away shots to make it more appropriate for our genre. Once our draft was complete, we then moved onto research films such as ‘camp rock’ and ‘hairspray’. As these are both musicals it brought a small element of corny that we wanted and they also started in a similar way to our (a girl wakes up and gets ready).
We continued to improve our script but came across a few problems when it came to how we were going to shoot them. Who would play the characters and the length of our final piece. When we came up with the rough length it was no way near what we were seeking to get out of it so the script still needs to be worked on to bring it to the standard we need.
Other work that we have done for the planning such as the SWOT wasn’t a problem. We had good communication skills and discussed what problems we are likely to come across and also discussed in advance how we would get passed them. Most of our problems were based on the location and time keeping as some member of the group felt that they may have difficulty with this. The location was a problem as we are planning to shoot a small part of it outside which we hadn’t done in our previous exercise.
Another problem that we began to face what the filming date. As we would be filming on two separate occasions in two locations, finding a time for the group and the actors was very difficult as well as coming up with the issue of our continuity, as the actor may look different on different days.
After doing the previous exercise of a short film, I have realised that there are many things I need to do that will hopefully improve in my next piece. The first would be to try to pay more attention to the technology that we will be using in our filming and editing as this proved a huge problem previously. As there were problems with the type of files which held us back quite a lot when it came to editing, me and my group will ensure we use the right equipment given to us.
Communication is also a thing I want to improve on and already feel like I am contributing more to the group when it comes to planning and discussing things such as filming date etc. As I feel more confident in my new group and more confident in the piece we are producing, I don’t feel this should be a problem to overcome at all.
Another thing I would like to improve on in this exercise is my organisation skills and how I should always be thinking ahead. Although this was not a major issue previously; there was still some problem when it came to filming as I had not thought of organising the room properly before our filming date. This way, we will hopefully film a lot faster and have less to worry about on the day.
Organising the schedule is also something I want to consider as the on the practise exercise, we were unaware of the time limit we had and rushed through our piece before realising we had a whole week left with nothing to do. If the schedule in this exercise is done properly then we should have more time to plan, film and edit which will help improve our final outcome.
Friday, 5 March 2010
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