Evaluation: Question 7

Evaluation Question 7

Throughout the duration of our production I have learnt a lot about many different types of technologies and I have learnt many different skills from filming, editing and audio aspects. A lot of planning has gone into the making of our production and it has come a lot way since we started with the creation of our original storyboard to the completion of our final cut. We also found that we had to change our production a lot because of certain mistakes we had made.

Throughout the production because of mistakes we made in the visual department we found we had to reshoot many times to make the corrections needed. for example once we put all of our original shot back and got feedback on the first cut it was made clear to us that we had to change the prop we used for the murder weapon this is because the weapon we used originally was a metal pole and it was unclear to the audience that it was the murder weapon. This is why when we re-shot it we changed the murder weapon to a brick and made it obvious to the audience that it was the weapon by filming the Billy drop the brick and show it roll down and hit the victim. Another problem we faced was the amount of shots we had, when we put our first cut together we realised that the amount of shots we had didn’t add up to two minutes because of this we had to re-write the story board however we had to add on another scene to the end, we used these extra scenes to show the audience the character relationship between the two boys and how the murder had effected them. Continuity was also another issue we faced because as we put the piece together we realised that certain parts of the production had problems with continuity and so we had to re-shoot them and re edit them and we learnt that we had to pay closer attention to detail when filming.

We also had problems with sound at different points in the production this is because where we were filming was quite noisy and so the microphone had trouble picking up other sound effects we wanted to include such and snapping twigs, we got around this issue by using pre recorded sounds and adding them on in the editing stage. We also found I difficult to find music to use in our piece because it had to be un-copyrighted.
I have also learnt a lot about editing from working on our production this is because we had to cut all of our shots and put them together in the right order and so they looked right, we also added many transitions to the piece to add effect and to make it more interesting.