evaluation

Evaluation

throughout this assignment I had to continuously review and evaluate how I carried out my project, from the pros and cons to how I overcome the problems that arose and how I developed my ideas from my primary idea into my final finished movie.
During this piece of work I had to keep a journal that should have made use of my on line web log utilities, my journal was used to document and reflect on my work as my project progressed.
My primary idea was an in-depth story revolving around two families entitled Memory Of Blood, however I had to scrap this idea due to the face that the final films predicted run time would have been well over the desired six minutes, and If I had to cut the film down to six minutes then a lot of the storyline would have been lost in the process, so I decided to scrap that idea and start over again.
My secondary idea was a collaborative idea that I established and elaborated on with a fellow Audio/Visual Student Jack Boyles, my secondary idea was the idea that I went for as my final idea, the storyline consisted of two primary characters and one secondary character, and the relationship between a hostage and his capturer.
Two days before the scheduled day of filming, both my primary and secondary actor contacted me and to my disappointment pulled out, due to conditions that there car had broken down and it was too late for them to arrange a alternative means of transportation.
As a last result I asked two fellow Audio/Visual students if they could participate in acting in my film, these two people being Jack Boyles and Janet Chu. To my surprise they both agreed to lend me a hand in order to produce my film, because me and jack came up with the storyline together, he already had a good idea of what I wanted and what I expected to gain from the filming.
On the day of the shot the main problem that arose was that the microphone cable wasn't picking up sound but it was still registering on the camera that the sound was being captured, it was only after filming and capturing the footage, that I discovered there had been a problem with the microphone, however I decided to overcome this problem by using a sound booth to reproduce the audio and a soundtrack that was produced by a amateur sound designer and my house mate, Henry Girgis.
While editing the biggest problem I found was not the footage or sound, but cutting the footage down to 6 minutes without losing the storyline.
Day one of filming I wrote on my on line journal “I had a lot of fun working on my film today, there was a lot of funny out takes and for the first time i really had fun filming a piece of work, this was also the first chance i got in a long time to actually be on camera not just the guy behind the lens, the face no one ever remembers,” I feel that this quote sums up the whole experience I gained from the production work I produced, Working along side two very good and close mates was a great opportunity.
The software I used to capture my footage and compile my movie was a software designed for Windows called Adobe Premiere, the version I used of the software was Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, I didn't use the latest edition which is CS3 because I feel comfy with the design and layout of Pro 2.0, if I had a choice I would have used Final Cut Pro for the Mac, the reason being is that have had two year pier experience with Final Cut Pro, and I am more confident with that piece of software, however to have the advantage in my field of work, I need to experience and develop my knowledge and skills In a range of different softwares and achieve in-depth knowledge into my area of expertise. I feel that working on my own for this assignment allowed me to learn about my own personal strengths and weaknesses and how I can overcome the weakness and mature my strengths, thus gaining a better grasp and knowledge of my own capabilities and my potential to develop future in the future, to achieve my own goals.
When I finished a draft version of my film, I sent my father a email to ask his opinion on what he thoughts were on what I had done so far and if there was anything he thought I should change or try to improve, within a hour he replied to my email saying, and I quote “ I am amazed that I piece of work such as this was done by my son, you make me and your mother so proud, you was the first one in the family to go to university and you are living my dream, we are both proud of what you have become and achieved.”
What my father said to me in that email gave me a large burst of confidence, but he also gave me some ideas and pointers on how I could improve my footage and from what he said I feel that I developed and improved the final outcome of my movie.
One major problem that arose near the end of my final footage was that my external hard drive where my data was kept malfunctioned, and I lost all my work on it, lucky enough, I had most of the assignment in other locations, the production folder was handed in a few weeks pier to the malfunction, so that was one part of work already completed, most of the footage was already uploaded onto youtube, the cuts and shots had been listed, so all I had to do was recapture the footage and from the shot list I had already written, cut the footage to the shot list and I had the footage that I originally lost.

Overall I was satisfied with the outcome of my final movie, however the final film could have been better, if problems hadn't occurred such as my hard drive malfunctioning and losing my in progress work, I could have maybe developed the final film and spent more time developin , but I am grateful that these problem did arise because these problems gave me the oppitunity to develop my knowledge and look at my work from a different