For starters, I feel as though I need to be a bit more picky with who I work with, as sometimes certain members of the group weren't really pulling their weight, so it sometimes made the task a bit more stressful. However, since we were all focussed on specific roles, I now realise fully what I love most in film making, and that's post production. Editing is something I love, I have the patience required to sit at a computer and create the final piece from footage that either I have filmed or someone else has filmed, and I feel knowing that this is what I most enjoy will make future projects a lot easier and make the outcome overall a lot better.
Looking back on pre-production, and the planning that went into the film, I feel most of it was a success. The majority of the time we were on top of everything, and what really helped was the creation of the gantt chart, it made us constantly alert and always on task and on top of everything, it is definitely something I will be creating for almost any project I do.
In terms of how long I gave us to film, yes, it was enough time, but it was a very stressful process, as we relied on the final day to get the recording done because if we didn't get it done on that day we'd be behind on schedule, so in future projects I would make sure to give us perhaps 2 weekends instead of the one, just to make everything a lot less hectic and to ensure we definitely get everything done in time.
From the actual weekend of filming I have learned many things, one of them being how to work cameras better. Unfortunately, I didn't check the majority of the footage until I got back to university after the weekend was finished, only to see that I had set the FPS too low, so I get a lot of motion blur within the clips. If I were to do this project again, that is something I would definitely change. I have learned a lot about lights, and how certain lighting can really effect the mood of a scene, and how easy it is to change the lighting to make a room look either early morning or late afternoon, which will really come in handy in the future. Even though it isn't my forte, I learned how to record audio, and what mics to use in certain situations and how audio recorders actually work. After finally getting everything filmed I realise how long it actually takes to film certain scenes, I feel I can take this experience into my next project and really improve on the one I have made.
Overall the project was a success, other than the camera difficulty, everything went how I wanted it too, the editing process went well, and we were never really behind at any point in the task, so onward and upward from here.
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