Jake - Individual Evaluation

Looking back at mine and Richard's 40 second re-make of last year's slasher film there are a number of good and bad points that came up with our filming and our final editing. Firstly we are very pleased that with the whole of our filming we managed to keep a steady shot to allow the viewer to see what's going on very clearly. We are also pleased with how well we framed each shot because what we tried to do was that we tried to use the same shot selections and shot types in our film and we managed to do that. However we did miss out two shots that were included in last year's film which we forgot about. When we finished editing our 40 second film we could clearly see that we applied the rules of continuity because of how well each of our shots flowed together. We made sure that with our filming we got the correct camera angles in order to apply the rules of continuity. As we were filming we kept looking back at each shot that we had to do in our 40 second film and we then compared how similar the shots were. Looking back we do think that we used the right people to help us in our filming. Me and Richard struggled to find people to help us so Richard and I both did the recording and the acting while our friend Lewis played the character who was found dead in the bath. We also think that the props we used were also very good even though there weren't that many props used in last year's film. All we had to include was a phone which the victim carried most of the time, a knife which the killer held covered in fake blood and when we enter 'Jessica's room' there were close up shots of some toys on her bed. These were very easy to include in our filming and they were each shown rather clearly at the correct moments. However the main problem that Richard and I faced was lighting. When we did our filming it became very dark and that is clearly shown in our final film because most of our shots were so dark you could hardly see what was going on but it still made sense because you could still quite make out what was happening in each shot. But we also think that the location we used (Richard's house) was very good because I certainly thought that there was plenty of room for our filming. In our film I played the victim, Richard played the killer and Lewis played the dead guy in the bath. I also helped with the filming by setting up the camera at some points and Richard did most of the planning by selecting the 40 seconds of the film that we were going to re-create. Improvements that we would make to our final film would be to use a location with more light where it's not that dark, and with some of our shots we didn't use the whole screen. For example when I first walk into the bathroom there's quite a lot of space above my head and in the final shot where we see Lewis in the bath, you see him at the bottom of the screen. So the improvements to be made here would be to not have so much un-used space in our film so that you can see each character in full detail. What we are planning to do differently is that we might use an outdoor setting for our film not an indoor setting.