Overall I believe i have produced a good project. There is good and bad things about the project that was down o me and wasn't down to me. I believe that i created a good edit that fitted the brief and target audience. It contained arrive footage and had a good story line that fitted the target audience of 14-16. The idea that i came up with is the idea that we filmed, i decided to go with mother and son as i thought it would be more touching than a mother and husband. By using a son it will make the audience feel like that it may be them and connect more as the actor is their age. Being a husband or someone of an older age they may have struggled to connect to it a bit more. My video fitted the length that it needed to be and contained suitable archive footage that fitted the video perfectly. I could have maybe helped out a lot more with the pre production work and maybe with the production itself. We had a little issue with communication within my group and trouble with one of the group members having bad attendance throughout the project which also brought the group down slightly as he was DoP. Despite these couple of issues we managed to get the project done with no major issues.
On day one of filming everything went very well when filming indoors. Everything went very smoothly and we managed to get a few shots of every angle to ensure that we had enough footage at different angles. The cast and crew worked very well together and helped each other out throughout the filming to ensure that everything ran smoothly. All the costumes and props worked very well and set the scene, mood and era. When it came to filming outside we wasn't able to get much done due to the weather. We managed to film the mother saying goodbye to her son at a couple of different angles a few times. When it came to filming in the forest of the son writing his letter to his mother we had a bit of trouble due to the weather so was unable to film that and had to reschedule for another day. We got slightly lucky the second day of filming and managed to film during a dry hour of what was a very wet and rainy day. Unfortunately we was unable to get the costume for a second day so had to improvise with a some dark jeans a shirt. Luckily this fitted in and looked ok. Overall i believe that filming went very well apart from the weather which can't be helped. Luckily we was able to work around this and get everything that we needed to be able to create our short video.
Although these things went well i believe that i could have improved on many many things. First of all i could have helped out a lot more with pretty much everything. I think with the paper work i could have maybe stepped in for the DoP and done the paper work that they needed to complete so that we where ready to film a little sooner. I could have also helped out with story boards, risk assessments and location recees. All of this would of helped move the process a little quicker and we would have been able to film sooner or even film a little extra footage. With the filming i could have maybe helped out by doing some camera work due to the DoP being absent when filming. Or maybe have helped a little more with the props and costume. By helping out with all of these things the process would have been sped up and would have given us more time to film and edit. But overall everything went very well and i am pleased with the outcome considering there was a slight communication error with everyone in the group that i was working with which is a shame considering everything turned out very well. I believe that i created a good edit but could have maybe spent a little bit more time to make it look more of a professional standard. I could ahem maybe have gotten a few different types of archive footage. I did struggle to find British archive footage that was of good enough quality to be able to use in my video.
Over all even though there was strong points to my work i believe that there was more weaknesses and i could have done a lot better than i had. To have done better i could have put more effort into more work and blog rather than leaving things till the very last minute that i did. I think this would have improved my work a lot more. Also putting more effort into the preproduction.
If i had to do the whole thing again i would make sure that everything was completed by certain dates to ensure that every thing could get done on time and that it was to a very good standard so that we could get a little extra time for filming and editing. I would make sure that there was no issues within the group so that things could run smoothly with no hiccups. Other than the many issues that we had i think that we managed to pull through it all and create a strong piece of work that fitted the brief exactly with very strong footage and shots.
