UNIT:22:3 (Evaluation Short Film)

Evaluation

Livia has set an assignment which had been completed in groups of three; I worked with Alex and Geff, we had to make a short film on anything we could come up with. I really enjoyed this project it was fun, interesting and exciting because we had to come up with an idea which we could bass our story on and I am very creative when it come to making u story line.

Right this is were my imagination takes place. My story is about a girl who has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for over a year and has got some important new which she has to share with him. They walk to college and they are in the same class together. When Alex try’s to talk to boyfriend Geff he doesn’t pay her any attention. She continues to try and get his attention but doesn’t work his either listening to music, talking to someone or his phone rings. Eventually she gets really mad and shouts the news out in front of everyone in the class and runs out. Geff is very shocked and don’t know what to do, his got a lot of thinking to do so he left his phone in college and walked out.

I think that my storyline is original because my storyline is based on reality nowadays girls are getting pregnant like everyday. I feel that my storyline was interesting because the characters I picked to play the roles played it very well and also made it look funny and everyone enjoyed watching it. I also believe my short film was suitable for the assignment brief because we had to have to people playing the characters; we had to have a subject which we could set it on and I picked; girl being pregnant with her boyfriend. I might be able to improve this assignment if I had to do it again I think I would use a better camera for example canon 500, have more steady shots and also don’t make the film as long as it was make it about a minute and 30 seconds.

Well when I started to plan my short film I had to make a storyboard so it gave me a brief of what I wanted in each scene, where I wanted to film each footage and how I wanted each camera angles. I feel that I could have improved my planning a bit better because I didn’t have a lot of time and I wasn’t in college for like a week so it was all rushed at the last minute.

In this assignment I played five roles producer, script writer, director, camera person and the editor. In each role it was very frustrating because you can’t be in five different places at the same time. Also where it was a last minute thing I had so much stress on me because I had to find people to do the acting, get the equipment, made sure everything was working well and how I imagined it would turn out to be like. I feel that I did the directing very well, script writing went well as well because I’ m very creative when it come to an assignment like making up your own story’s and also the editing because I’m very creative and love making up the story as I go along for example add sound effects, normally effects cut and paste and putting all the footage into one so I can make up the final story.

I think I picked just the right people to work with in this project because they played the part just right they worked very well together and with me for example I didn’t really have a story line by the time we started to film so they worked with me to create a story so that we could crack on. I worked with Alex and Geff, the story line was good because you would have never expected to see them to in a relationship or even having sex but you never know what life can bring to you.

I loved the finish footage of my short film; it was just amazing in just short amount of time to produce what we did in the matter of two hours. People in my class loved my short film it made everyone laugh and made everyone watch it over and over again because they really enjoyed watching it. I was very pleased because I got a lot of good feed back for example saying ‘keep up the good work, it was very funny, entertaining and interesting’ I got one bad feedback saying ‘have more steady footage’ if I was to do this project again all I would do to improve it is have more time to plan it and don’t leave it to the end so you are confused and don’t know how, what, when, who.