I really wanted to look back over the whole project and reflect on what I had done and learnt. From the very beginning I had a good idea of the role I wanted to play, which was as an actor, cameraman and editor. I had never edited anything before this so i made it very clear that i really wanted to learn how. I would say that learning to edit has been one of the things I am most proud of from this project, apart from of course the final film, which I am also extremely proud of. Every member of the group put a lot of work towards the final film. For example, Jack Wilson threw himself at directing and writing the film, whereas the rest of us did parts of everything in different amounts. Matt Cornes made the music for the piece by himself, we allowed him to do this because music creation is one of his hobbies and none of us had any other prior experience. I did a lot of the editing and camera work, as well as acting a minor role in the final film. I also contributed a lot of ideas that made it into the final film, such as the pianist scenes and the idea of a 'dead drop' suitcase. Early on I made it clear that I wanted to be completely responsible for the filming and editing of a scene, for this I chose the piano scene. Every shot is filmed and edited by me and I am rather proud of it.
I feel like i have kept to a schedule well enough, early on I decided on what to include in the blog by looking at an exemplar blog and comparing what I was missing to what I already had. I also decided that I wanted to just take notes on what I did and write them to the blog all at once. I felt this worked better because it meant that I could construct the blog much better. This is also why I have been publishing the posts in spread out chunks rather than consistently. If i had made a post every week or day I feel as if i would run out of things to write as well as quickly forgetting what i had written.
We encountered a few problems during filming such as angles, timing as well as editing software. We also had to re-film a few key scenes because we feel that they weren't up to the standard that we wanted. We really wanted this film to speak well of our abilities and we decided that what we had didn't represent that well enough so we went back and fixed it.
When comparing the final piece to our preliminary we see a massive improvement in my opinion. The inexperience with both editing and film making is obvious when I look back at the Prelim. Obvious things such as lighting and music are completely overlooked, as well as dialogue. Whereas I see how the camera work and editing has progressed immensely in the first half of the final film. Shots are interlaced with the piano scene perfectly as well as the music reflecting what is happening on screen.
I do not think I would have done anything differently apart from perhaps including some dialogue, filming outside of the school and having female actresses in the film.
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