Preliminary Task

The Broken Friendship

What Went Well?

As a production team the three of us (Dan, Charlotte and myself) all worked well together to produce our short film. We all listened to each others creative ideas without overpowering each other in our decisions creating and filming the piece. The actual film itself is of a decent standard for a piece of work, including all the given circumstances set for us to perform in the task. This was also thanks to our willing actors who took the time to give us a great performance to create the film.

What Is Good?

I am particularly proud of our work with the camera angles and camera movements, even though all three of us controlled the camera all the shots flowed well. While editing the match on action shots too we found that the actress had done a good job with matching her movements on each side of the door as she enters making the edit near enough perfect. However as the actress exits this was slightly harder to edit due to the movement of her hair as she turns around, we had to match this movement so her hair hadn't magically switched sides. While editing all of the shots, there was little or no continuity.

Did You Follow The Production Rules?

180 Degree Rule - Yes I believe we kept to the rule, as while the two characters were having a conversation we never went past them and round the back of them. Even as the one actress got up to exit we kept the rule enforced as when she began to move we tracked the camera with her so the audience would understand the movement.

Match On Action - I think we performed these edits and shots well, as explained in the previous question. The edits worked well with the actresses movements and the rule was clearly followed as she entered and exited the room.

Continuity - As observed in our film we believe there is no or little continuity errors throughout.

What Went Less Well?

There was no real issue while making the film other that when filming the 'Match On Action' shots there were some issues with the actors forgetting where their hands/feet were placed so that lead us to filming several versions of the same shot. But there was not issue with anything else while filming and editing the film.

What Did You Learn About Making Films and Working Within a Production Team?

When making a film I learnt that you may have/want to do shots more than once to get the film just right, this may be a bit of a pain but all in all it is worth it for the overall quality of the film.  While working in the production team set up you must have to listen to each other, and take on each-others creative ideas. That is really important if you want your film to be the best it can be, if not then the film could be a total disaster and the team could fall apart. Give everyone equal opportunities and also make sure everyone knows what they are doing in the given point.