evaluation of first preliminary course work (2 posts below)

Evalutaion of our first attempt at filming

We chose to have the black and white ....5...4...3...2..1... at the begining to set the tone for the film and show the audience that it would be in black and white and in an 'old' style.

We wanted the tiltle to appear after this and then to have it fade into the first shot of Jenny. We ask Jenny and Aaron to be in this film so a BIG thank you to them for helping us out. We chose to have other people acting in our film as we wanted to focus on the filming.

We wanted no dialogue in our film so to keep in with the old fashioned theme. However we had a problem with this as we thought that we cut out all the sound when we added in the soundtrack, we hadnt, so now we have a soundtrack and backing noice. We have learnt from this mistake as you can see from our other film.

We have various shots of Aaron running down the corridor and there is one shot of Aaron through a window which we thought would be very effective, however there is sun's glare on the window so you can't really see Aaron's face.

A problem with the film being in black and white was that our film looked very dark at a couple of points.

We chose to have two different soundtrack, one for Jenny and one for Aaron. For Aaron we have a very dramatic and frantic soundtrack as he looked for Jenny. For Jenny's soundtrack we have very 'lovey dovey' music as she waited for Aaron. The music was very cliche and cheesy but this is the effect we wante to give....slighty comical.

We have used lots of various different shots including and long shot, areail shot, and a slow mo shot of Jenny dropping the book, again for dramitic effect. This is when the sound slowed too giving the 'hulk' effect. This was only one problem we had with the sound, the other was that we thought that we had got rid of the background talking, but we hadnt so we had that mixed with the soundtrack. We learnt from this and in our other film we have no soundtrack.

In the end we have a fade to black to show the end of the film, we also have an 'end' sequence with the same style as the ...5...4...3...2...1 sequence, it is alsoin black and white to keep in with the theme.

Overall we are very pleased with our FIRST EVER FILM and we are very proud of it. We do have things we would like to change but we can learn from our mistakes and make our other films better because we have had the experience of doing this one.