Evaluation

For this assignment, we were asked to create a film that had a rough narrative and contained a structure much like those described in the research. We started out by writing up a small story which we would then provide a small pitch and the idea that the most people voted towards would then be the film people worked to create, my idea was voted the highest and a large percentage of the class wanted to be part of this project, however, due to the size of group going over the limit, we decided to have two episodes by two different teams rather than one small movie by a large group, this required writing up scripts for both episodes and then discussing what improvements should be made. Once the scripts and storyboards had been drawn up and written we then moved onto the character designs which we used for roughly around three characters. Thanks to the in depth questionairre we used, it gave us a really good idea of what characters we would like and the actors we could use for to portray these characters. After this was all done, we then contacted multiple actors to use during the filming and we also arranged to use several locations including a hotel, bar and an old abandoned office space.

After a couple of weeks of planning, we were then contacted by the actors who notified us that they could not arrive and that they will be unable to film with us, this was a major problem in the development process as we had delayed the filming whilst waiting for the actors and in a quick attempt to fix situation, we then decided to film with ourselves, we acquired some fantastic shots and the team put together a great office atmosphere but due to time limits and lack of resources, we had to go back to previous footage from an old film and incorporate this into our project as we had just not recorded enough footage to be able to create a small film, at first we attempted to provide a trailer as it allowed us to balance the footage of both the old film and our current recordings, however, we had to create a certain narrative and the structure had to go along the ABC narrative so through editing, we then put together a proper film by just connecting both pieces of footage.

Overall, I was incredibly happy with the performance with the team, despite being hit by major disadvantages including time restraints and missing actors, we still worked hard to create something out the small amount of footage we had recorded, project wise, I really felt we could have done more, it is very clear we fell massively short of the original idea and if we were ever given the chance to work on this project again with more time, I really feel we could create the project exactly like we wanted but I am really impressed with the overall cooperation and work the team put in to try and get the most out of what we had recorded.