What Went Wrong?

The biggest problem I had was the voice over, the original issue was there was a lot of background disruption that I tried to edit out but that made the voice sound robotic. Luckily my actress was able to re-record it and it was sorted. The next issue is that I expected the voice over to be this big omniscience presence but it sounds a bit week and not dark enough to fit in with the film. Also the actual writing is poor and very basic.

I originally thought to make the holograms I could also use the test shots I did as templates. Turns out I couldn’t. The hologram person turned out ok but I  am not as proud of the hologram screen. I think the footage on it should have been different.

On the filming day in the abandoned building we had to get to set 3 hours earlier because Brigi the main actress could not make the later times that I originally planned. Therefore I had to re-arrange the time table. This wasn’t too much of an issue and it ended out being helpful as it meant the natural light was still available and I didn’t have to try lighting my scenes. This meant I had less to worry about when using artificial lighting.

On my filming day it was very hot (27°C). I had planned for the character, Idris’s costume to have a hood and a jumper. Unfortunately we could not make Brigi wear the jumper as it would have caused a health and safety hazard. Instead I played with lighting and the camera angle to keep her identity as secret as possible.

Brig (the main actress) was not available for filming multiple days so all the scenes that I said would be filmed in Oxted didn’t happen. Instead I filmed most shots at the abandoned building so that I would still have my footage. Thinking back on it I’m not sure the underground walk way in Oxted would have worked as the location has a very different tone to the abandoned building.

Brigi, Alana and Ben all asked me to print out the image release forms for them so they could fill them out. Unfortunately, Jess forgot to bring hers so When I gave them all the forms Jess, Ben and Alana filled in the actual form and Brigi was left to just write her details on the back of one of the sheets. The same happened on a later filming day when I asked Dan to print his out and he forgot.

I had an idea to make jewellery out of tinfoil, thinking it would look sic-fi, it ended out looking really cheap and tacky. Therefore I did not include it in my costume.

Sam, an actor I had cast for a specific shot could not make the filming day so the shot that I wanted to get could not happen. In relation to this shot, during editing I wished I had a medium rule of third shot of al my characters as I think it would have filled out my trailer a bit more.

Looking back on my work I wished the music was longer and therefore my trailer would have been longer too as I feel like I could have included more shots and made the film feel bigger.

Kubrick Evaluation

Self Evaluation:

Coming up with the name for my film has been really difficult I keep getting creative block but in the end I decided to call it “No” for a few reasons. Firstly, the girl repeats the word ‘no’. Secondly, it shows that even the power of the word ‘No’ is limited and it can’t protect you from sexual abuse, in a way it’s an homage to people who have been sexually abused even though they said ‘No’. It proves a point that just saying ‘No’ isn’t enough and people can be overpowered. It proves that it is never the victims fault.

I knew for this project that I didn’t want to film in college as I am so bored of filming in such a limited place. So the beginning of my film is set in a woodland area I think this location creates a fairy tale vibe that links in with the Disney ‘Snow White’ story. The second location is at my house in my little brother’s bedroom. For the scenes shot in my house I had to clear out all the rooms in use as I wanted to create this sterile looking place, also any thing that makes it into the frame helps to develop the narrative and if I had some cat toys laying on the floor when earlier I show the guy owns a dog this would be confusing.

At first I thought I wanted to use Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi but change the key of it in logic to make the happy tone of it turn into a darker sound. However, after some further research I found the piece Fairy Tale (skazka), Op. 29 by Rimsky-Korsakov and straight away I imagined a film with a similar vibe to mine working with the music way better than my original piece. So I took Rimsky’s piece and cut out all the bits I wanted to use and then put them where they matched the film the best. The music is cut up and placed in random orders and I think it is quite effective. At one point I was trying to do something and by accident repeatedly pasted one small section of the music in one place, I was pleasantly surprised that it created this creepy, suspense sounding tone and knew that I wanted to place it on the clips where the guy is walking to her room (going up the stairs towards the door). I was going to add foley but after spending a day and a half editing the music I decided it wasn’t necessary as the music filled in the gaps where I would have put foley in.

Some creative and technical choices that I made was that I wanted to use one-point perspective as Kubrick is famous for his extensive use for it. Another thing was to create symmetry in some of my shots. For both of these I have done this and if you go to my post called ‘Changes Made Throughout The Task‘ I go into detail on where I have tried to achieve this. The main problem that occurred when I tried to complete one-point perspective and symmetry as that my shots aren’t always straight and therefore it doesn’t work. I also tried to keep my narrative sticking to Todorov’s theory. The equilibrium is that everything seems fine in the beginning, the guy just seems like he is helping the girl out. The disequilibrium is when the guys true intensions show and he starts becoming abusive and sexually violent. The new equilibrium is created when she dies because she no longer has to go through the suffering.

I managed to achieve a finished film the was based on Snow White. I managed to develop my basic idea into a short film.

The thing that I thought went well were the composition of the shots, the Kubrick feel of the film. And I think the editing is quite smooth.

I found casting hard as it is hard to get people to spend their free time acting for free, plus I do not know many male people who can act. Unfortunately, due to this my film is let down by Toby’s poor acting skills and this lets the film down. Another thing is that in a few of my shots there are things that are not meant to be there, for example the Toy Story poster.

I found setting up the location fairly easy it was quite satisfying being able to clear out a room so that it could help build the narrative. I also found editing quite easy as I just had to follow my story board and then cut down the shots.

I like this film as I can see how this film is better than other films I have made, it shows my progression in this course. I also like how it has this fairy tale/ fantasy vibe at the beginning of it as this is the kind of content I enjoy and would like to make more of. The most frustrating thing is that Toby’s acting lets the film down massively.

From this production I have learnt that I shouldn’t just choose my actors based on ease and focus more on if their acting skills. Another thing is that I should focus on all the character’s costumes as the massive Jack Wills logo on Toby’s shirt is annoying as I’m not trying to sell the brand. I also learnt that planning the days that I’m filming in detail is very helpful as it meant I knew exactly what I was meant to be doing at that point in time and I knew where I was meant to be. It took some pressure off of me. All these things I have learnt I will take on in future projects.

Peer Feedback:

Changes Made Throughout The Task

In this blog I am going to be talking about the changes that I made from the very beginning of production and how my idea and film developed from my proposal to the final piece.

From my proposal I have kept the basis of my story the same, it is still a film set after Snow White wakes up. At the time of writing my proposal I didn’t know if I was going to kill of the girl but in the end decided I would. In the proposal I said that the guy would take off his coat and put it on the girl but I also decided against this idea. In my proposal I state that I wanted to use Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi but after some further research I found the piece Fairy Tale (skazka), Op. 29 by Rimsky-Korsakov and knew I could fit this in way better.

Looking at my story board here are all of the bits of foley I didn’t include. I decided to not add in any foley as when I was editing the music to the film it wasn’t as simple as just putting the track under my film and using it as background noise. I decided that I could use the music to tell the story and help make the narrative flow. This meant I had the long task of listening through a 15 minute track and cutting out all the bits of music I thought would fit in. Then I had to place all these broken up pieces to the footage, kind of like a puzzle. Once I had the main bits fitting the footage I had to fill in the gaps with the quieter parts of the piece and then I had to make sure my transitions were smooth so that it flowed and didn’t sound ‘lumpy’

 

On the story board I was meant to film this scene, but apparently I didn’t, luckily it wasn’t too necessary as you get the idea that he leaves.

During editing I decided to take this frame out as Toby wasn’t the best actor and having this close up emphasised this fact.

The frames that I have downloaded on here have gone out-of-order but I’m just talking about each frame so this doesn’t matter too much.

The beginning is filled with establishing shots of the woods. In this frame I wanted to achieve one-point perspective.

 

 

I added these titles to help break up the nature scenes that could have seemed dull.

 

I turned this shot upside down to create a weird tone, it feels un-natural which foreshadows that something bad will happen.

 

I learnt how to blur a background and focus on a certain area so I wanted to add some of these artistic shots in to establish my setting.

 

Here I introduced the basics of the narrative just so that the audience are sure that it is roughly based on Snow White.

 

Here is another one-point perspective shot. I turned it upside down to continue the unnatural tone. This shot was a bit un-stabalised when I filmed it so I had to stabilise it in editing, I don’t really like relying on this feature as it makes the film look weird.

I think this title adds some tension.

I did more establishing shots than planned because I got some inspiration to do some upside down shots and wanted to do some artistic shots as well to show my camera skills.

Filming with a dog is a lot harder than you think. Sometimes Toby would wander off and we had some continuity issues with balls as Toby kept chewing through them meaning we had to introduce another one it.

In this frame we had to throw a ball to make toby run over unfortunately you can see the ball land but in get the effect I wanted so it’s not a massive issue.

I quite like this shot as I think it looks aesthetically good, I also like how it ties in the snow-white theme and makes it clear.

 

 

Toby isn’t where I want him in this scene but it had to do.

 

 

Toby’s hood isn’t straight here and that is quite annoying.

 

 

 

 

 

Here I tried to achieve one-point perspective again.

 

 

 

This scene is annoying as the human Toby doesn’t put his hand in the correct place.

 

This scene was difficult to get as we had to get Toby walking in the correct direction, this was meant to be a POV shot but I decided not to do that as it was difficult enough to control the dog.

I think I should have shot this shot from Toby’s head not his shoulder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to add in this shot of Toby’s face just to get the idea that he is looking at her.

 

 

 

 

 

Toby picks Esther up really awkwardly here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One-point perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I tried to achieve symmetry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One-point perspective and symmetry.

 

 

 

Kubrick is famous for tracking shots and I tried to achieve this in my walking up the stair scenes.

 

 

 

 

When editing the music for this scene I by accident pasted in something else multiple times and just by chance it happened to work here. I also continue the upside down theme here.

Here I was going to have her saying “Hello” but after a bit of feedback from Elena and Liv I decided not to add it in and instead have her still looking at the door way to build suspense.

One-point perspective and symmetry.

 

 

Here I continue my tracking shots inspired by Kubrick. One big mise en scene issue is that I forgot to remove a Toy Story poster and this ruins the shot.

 

This shot isn’t straight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think this shot is really creepy and the red wall helps intensify this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One-point perspective and symmetry… If it was straight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to achieve one-point perspective but I didn’t have enough room to achieve the full effect.

 

This shot emphasises her being locked in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to achieve symmetry in this shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symmetry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I change the colour of the to emphasise the stab and shock the audience. I think it created a weird un-natural vibe.

 

I felt that zooming in at this point made it more dramatic.

 

 

 

 

The Problems I Faced

The biggest problem I faced was my green screen if I had spent a little bit of extra time lighting it properly when filming I could have avoided the lengthy editing time as it would have been a lot simpler. As editing took a long time I got hooked on it and was trying to get it all edited which meant the other footage I needed became less necessary for me to do and I ended out rushing my second film and not even getting the rest of the footage for my Horror. My solution to this should have been to film everything before even thinking about editing. I should have also just filmed in the actual location and not used the green screen it would have made my life a lot easier.

Another issue was I didn’t plan when I was going to film I just waited for people to be free and went and filmed in the spare of the moment which was a terrible idea as it meant I was rushing around as I wasn’t fully prepared and it also meant I couldn’t film some of my footage as some of my friends were unavailable to act. In the future I am going to full on plan the exact time and location I am filming and make sure my actors are free and know that they are needed.

I have a lot of shot that have issues in them which could have been solved if I just spent a bit of extra time rematching them and re-shooting if necessary.

For the sound of my drama its pretty disrupted and not as clear as it could be because I filmed downstairs in the winter garden which is a big open space. I have just been told that you can edit this in post production through certain types of software, For example: Audition CC- Have some footage of the room tone, select the room tone and then select  noise reduction, this should get rid of some of the background noise.

Drama Evaluation

• Title of the production: Coming up with the idea wasn’t too bad I looked at the script and the abusive relationship idea seemed to fit, it also helped that I had recently watched a abusive relationship show. At first look at the script we all thought that there was a typo and that the script didn’t make sense, later on I discovered that this helped to adapt the idea.
• Space/location: My original plan was to film this outside but living in the UK it obviously had to rain so due to time constraints I had to film inside which is annoying but it worked out still.
• Music: As I was typing the script I was listening to classical music (as usual) I think it was Einaudi specifically as he is one of my favourite composers and Experience started playing and I was like OMG I need to use this! So I wrote it into the script and once I got to the editing the stage it seemed to fit along with footage really well which was amazing.
• What creative and technical choices did you make in developing your project? Well, this task needed to have a clear genre so that was my optimum priority. I also wanted to involve blurred backgrounds into my work as we recently studied how to achieve it and I want to put what I’ve learnt to use.
• Did you managed to achieve what you wanted? Partially yes, I created a film thats genre was drama (I know this as people who watched the film said so). However there is a lot I would change about the film and I don’t think it is of the highest standard. I could blame it on the time constraints but really I was a bit lazy with this project as I was focusing on my Horror more and even then that film wasn’t finished!  I think I was over ambitious for this task and didn’t plan my time out properly.
• What went well? It has a clear genre. The narrative is clear. Some shots have good composition and I really like the shot where I pull focus from Troy to Freya. My script is very detailed and I found out I really like script writing I found it very therapeutic.
• How was the feedback you received? A lot of people said it was good however I think they we’re being too kind; also it was the end of the day and probably couldn’t be bothered to put details into their answers. They pointed out things such as when Troy pushed down Freya the long shot version of this has a girl walking behind them but when I replay it as a medium shot there is no girl. Another thing is how staged the slap is. Also the audio quality is poor.
• What do you think about it? The narrative is clear and so is the genre however it is a low quality piece of work as I rushed filming to focus on my horror. I could have done a lot better on this piece of work. 
• What have you learned from this production? Planning is key, giving myself enough time to film and edit will have a far better final result. Re-watch all shots to make sure they seem fine and re-shoot if not as the slapping shot is very obviously staged, I could have prevented this. Proper actors will make the film a lot better as bad acting stands out like a sore thumb.
• What action plan will you take forward in your next projects? How will you use it to inform your future? For my next project I need to plan out when and where I am going to film as I didn’t plan when I was going to film which made it planning very stressful. I also want to do some filming outside of college as I want to get more varied shots.

I added an establishing shot at the beginning so that the audience knew where the characters were.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here this shot doesn’t really work as they have been moving and then all of a sudden they are standing still.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the shot where the girl walked behind Troy and Freya and then when I did a medium shot replay of it this girl wasn’t there.

 

 

 

 

 

This is my favourite shot where I pull focus and the dialogue is in perfect time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This shot is so obviously staged as they just stand up and Troy slaps her.

 

 

My pan round didn’t really work as it got stuck on the tripod and is a bit fast.

Horror Evaluation

This task was a massive learning curve. I learnt that green screen is really difficult to do and extremely time consuming, hence why the project wasn’t finished. Next time I need to plan out my production time a lot better and if I want to use a green screen again I need to spend that extra bit of time placing lights and making sure the green screen is well lit and even… Or just go to an actual location! This task was an eye opener but I still enjoyed it as I think I want to go into CGI in the future.

• Title of the production: Coming up with the idea was fairly simple horror seemed to be the simplest genre to go with as horrors can be quite weird and not make sense just like the script. I read the script and this was the first idea that popped up into my head which is quite weird as I’m not a huge fan of horrors.
• Space/location: I chose to film using a green screen as I think I want to go into CGI in the future. The main problem I had was that the TV studios green screen isn’t very good as it has seams in it and I didn’t take enough time lighting the screen properly. This meant I had a lot of issues editing it.
• Music: I play the piano so I always have a lot of classical piano music in my head and it is usually the first idea that comes to mind when I think about music for my film so ‘Soul Outside’ has this really positive beautiful vibe that would fit in perfectly with my over exposed flashbacks (if I had got the chance to film them!). I then did the typical film student thing and typed into YouTube ‘copyright free horror music’. I listened to a couple of pieces and the one I chose seemed to fit well so I used it.
• What creative and technical choices did you make in developing your project? Well, this task needed to have a clear genre so that was my optimum priority. I also wanted to use green screen so that was another choice I made.
• Did you managed to achieve what you wanted? Partially yes, I created a film thats genre was a typical horror (I know this as people who watched the film said so). The fact that I focused wayyyyyyy too much on the green screen editing and not getting all my footage was a massive mistake especially when the green screen turned out pretty bad.
• What went well? It has a clear genre. Some frames with the green screen worked out ok. My script is very detailed and I found out I really like script writing I found it very therapeutic.
• How was the feedback you received? The green screen was seen as impressive. The film is unfinished which is disappointing. The idea seems interesting.
• What do you think about it? Its a pretty bad piece of work as it is unfinished. I am proud of some of the green screen shots but I would have really liked to finish the film.
• What have you learned from this production? Planning is key, giving myself enough time to film and edit will have a far better final result. Re-watch all shots to make sure they seem fine and re-shoot if not. Proper actors will make the film a lot better as bad acting stands out like a sore thumb. Green screen is a lot of work unless you have the proper equipment and software find the actual location.
• What action plan will you take forward in your next projects? How will you use it to inform your future? For my next project I need to plan out when and where I am going to film as I didn’t plan when I was going to film which made it planning very stressful. I also want to do some filming outside of college as I want to get more varied shots. Go to the actual location don’t just rely on green screen.

Here is every frame from the film:

 

 

 

 

Due to my other class mates being busy filming I couldn’t get to film my flashbacks in time. Next time I am going to set specific times so that they know when they are needed to act. This will mean  will get all my filming done.

This shot I am really proud of as I decided to make my life ten times harder by creating a moving shot This meant I had to take a still picture and make it move as the camera moves as the corner of the room wouldn’t stay in the same place in real life.

 

 

 

 

 

Here the green screen did not work there were too many shadows which caused too many shades of green which meant Ultra Key (the green screen editing tool) couldn’t clear the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Here I ran out of time editing the green screen so had to stop and for the rest of the film there is no more green screen. I never realised how time consuming green screen is. It is also very difficult to make it perfect as the wrong kind of lighting will ruin it.

 

Feedback

Things that were good about my creative ambitions project:

• The questions were answered seriously.
• Interesting frames for the action shots.
• Up beat music that suited the tone of the film.
• Composition of frames was generally good.
• Cut aways related to the topic.
• Good edit.
• Professional looking.
• Good name tags and subtitles.
• Lots of people were interviewed.

Things that weren’t as good about my creative ambitions project:

• Sound quality was inconsistent.
• Interviewer voice over was inconsistent.
• Dark Lighting on Chan- After filming this we learnt about aperture and ISO so we could have sorted this problem out if we had known this afterwards.
• Hard jump cuts make the film not flow. Adding transition will make the film more interesting.
• For Fin’s interview he is looking in the opposite direction he is sitting in, I should have told him to look in the correct direction.
• All the interviews have different characteristics as they were filmed by different groups this makes the film inconsistent, this makes the film a bit jarring.

Next time I will make sure that my film crew is the same for all filming as it really does show.

Task 6: Evaluation

1. Which primary research techniques did you use and how did you apply it to your work? Give examples

The primary research I used was a survey that started off with ten personal question, I did this to understand who was answering my survey and to understand what type of people they are. The survey then went on to ask questions personal to Pulp Fiction as this film was the first piece of research we did into gangster films. I ended out asking six people of varying ages, ranging from thirteen years to seventeen years. This gave me a lot of knowledge on different people. After completing my primary research, I found out that most people enjoyed ‘Pulp Fiction’. One view that came up a lot was that you have to watch it more than once to fully understand the plot and get your head around the disjointed structure of the film. Another surprising thing I found out was that the younger generation aren’t watching as much TV and tend to be streaming their shows on things like Netflix.

2. Which secondary research techniques did you use and how did you apply it to your work? Give examples

For my secondary research I compared two reviews. Where I added quotations I used inline citation. In hindsight I should have compared a positive and a negative review but I am bias and really love ‘Pulp Fiction’ so using a negative review would have been very annoying, so instead I made my life even harder and compared two positive reviews!

3. How did you reference sources and credit other people’s work in your research?

At the end of all post, when I used books or websites for research, there is a Bibliography at the end. I also used Harvard Referencing Generator to show what the source is about, the date accessed and the link if it was a website. If I happened to quote a source I put the name of who said it and the year they said it in brackets (this is called inline citation).

4. How did you present your research?

My group presented our research on a Powerpoint, we alternated through who said each slide. Some critique we got was that the presentation could have been more interactive and rather than just reading the text we could have created a script and memorized it. The good thing about it was that it was very informative and looked good. For a first ever presentation it was fairly good and all the criticism can be taken in for next time.

5. Can you identify what skills you have learned that you can apply in the future?

I learnt what high art and low art is and how to use it effectively in my work. I have learnt about Post Modernism, I actually really enjoyed incorporating it in my work as it added tension and suspense. I learnt that everything in cinema has a meaning even food! An example is ‘Goodfellas’. We also started to learn about genre and how each genre has certain codes and conventions. I also found out that genres can be mixed together to create a more complex narrative. Another thing I learnt was that creating a production proposal means a lot of work and detail is necessary as it is what sells the idea and is the turning point for if your film gets funded and selected to be produced.

 

My project was based on a book to film adaptation. My aim was to create a scene as close to the book as possible. One challenge was putting the scene into an East London location and setting it in the 1960’s, the research that I did for the presentation really helped me to understand what East London in the 60’s was like and how gangs acted around that time.

I got Liv to read the extract from the book and then my idea from the production proposal, she said she really enjoyed the concept and I had made it very closely to the book, however she said she is worried for the female character as this character has a big role and in the 60’s there was still controversy over female rights and roles.

Another thing I hadn’t considered in my production proposal is costumes, I have put fan art pictures of the characters but not explicitly said what the character’s wear, next time I will consider this.

One hard thing I found was that the book contained so many details that putting everything into the scene was difficult, as an avid reader watching a book to film adaptation that skips important information is extremely frustrating but being put into the role of creating just one scene I found it difficult to not just make an hour on one scene. I think this will make me less critical of book to film adaptations in the future as I now understand how difficult it is to achieve.

Another thing that was difficult is that the scene I chose is part way through the book so by this time the reader knows who the characters are whereas in my production planning I had to adapt it so that the audience doesn’t feel like they’ve missed something.

In this project I tried to focus on the sound scape a lot more, I have the idea of the music in my head but it would take a lot more research to find the specific tracks. Thinking about the sound scape really helped me build the tension up in the idea.

I really enjoyed messing with the structure of the film to create a post-modern vibe as it was really enjoyable to know that the audience would be confused and then it would resolve, it created a really satisfying feeling. I might take this form of rule breaking on in the future.

At first I was really confused how I was going to use low art but then I realised that the conversation between the characters in the beginning is low art, for this scene I took inspiration from the burger conversation between Samuel Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

Voice Over Reflection

One critique that was made over this project was that the speaking of the voice over was too quick which meant not everyone could understand what was being said, this caused a problem because it meant that some of the emotion was lost. So I redid my voice over with the help of a Level 3 Music student (Fin). He helped me to see where I needed to slow down and told me some sound improvements I could make.

In the redo I like some parts more than others. In the scene where I am chained up screaming the Redo is slower which meant the effect of the grief and the panic isn’t as apparent as the original. However I do prefer the opening in the redo compared to original as it is slower and calmer which sets the tone for the film.

Another thing that I found when redoing the voice over was that putting it against the film I was able to have more time to spread out the speaking which meant the impact of everything that was said was more drastic.

One thing that I predicted is that my voice in the redo doesn’t have as much emotion which reduced the impact on the audience. This is a massive negative because my film is meant to have an emotional impact.

Going back over this project was helpful but it has made me realise that I would change the whole thing. When you are doing a project you are so absorbed in this one idea and you just want to reach the final product and coming back to it after a month has made me realised that what I’m saying in the voice over is over dramatic and I would do it in a different way.

If the interview part of it wasn’t a rule I also would get rid of it as the quality of the sound isn’t very good and creates a tacky contrast.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying I hate the final result as I’m proud of what I achieved but it has got to the point where I have watched it so many times that I notice every single detail that is wrong.

Original:

Redo:

Time Reflection

Week	(w/c)	Recommended timeline	Completed in this time?	Reflection
1	16/10/17	Research Develop ideas Reflecting	Idea, research ways to present my idea, script drafting, reflecting on what I have learnt.	I already had an idea so it was all about researching ideas on how to portray it this went really well and was a massive help for the final product. At this point I was just jotting down ideas for my script.
2	23/10/17	Half Term Proposal  Research Development Test shots	Drew my story board, BBC iPlayer research, drafting script, researching music ideas.	My story board was successful, however once I started editing I decided not to include some things and I added other extra bits, the pictures made sense however after a while I got bored with drawing so some pictures aren’t as detailed. Finding music at this point was very annoying as I couldn’t find anything I really wanted to use.
3	30/10/17	Test shots Shooting	Green screen research, filming, research, finalised script	This research was really helpful as I think my green screen went quite well and without the research I would have had no clue. I think the script is very poetic and emotional (I didn’t want it to be a drone commentary I wanted it to be more artistic).
4	06/11/17	Shooting Editing On going Research Reflection	Filming, voice over, editing, filming some more.	Filming was fairly quick and easy as I had planned my shots in detail. It also went well in editing as I had it planned out so it was more about putting the puzzle together and helping emphasize the emotion. When I had almost finished editing I had to go out and film some different scenes as they didn’t fit into where I wanted them to go.
5	13/11/17	Submission  Final Group Crit Evaluation	Handed in on 08/11/17	I finished it early and I have tested the sound on speakers and made others watch it to ensure it is of high quality. I am proud of the work I have created. In group crit most of the feedback was positive and some people cried which means it was emotional however there are some places to improve on.

Did you observe the project specifications?

• Its duration must be 2 minutes exactly.  Yes
• It can only have 1 piece of music.  Yes, Carry Me by Eurielle
• It must include a voiceover of some kind; whichever style you feel appropriate. Yes, I think I have made it emotional and I have got the theme of the grief at the beginning and then become hopeful, it was also set in a letter type form.
• Include at least one interview – eg you questioning a friend, a member of your family or yourself.  Yes, Sam, Lee and Nathan
• The only text to be used is the title “this is me” (lowercase) and your name as a single credit. All explanations deemed necessary must be executed via picture and sound. No, I had to add in the question I ask my interviewees as it wouldn’t have made sense without it.
• It can have a maximum of 5 photographs. No extended music montages of your digital photo library allowed! Yes, I used only five pictures from my childhood.