Film Analysis

1. Pre-Production:
 Spencer & I initially scripted 3 idea treatments for our film. Our final decision came
down to which was the most straightforward to film as we have lacked resources,
money & time. Our other ideas involved the countryside & multiple characters which
we could simply not shoot.
 The treatment we chose was in many ways the most interesting, but it also easily
accessible. After we had chosen our film, we moved onto making a storyboard for
our opening sequence. The story board included shot distances, angles and duration.
This helped us have a clear idea of how we wanted our final product to be, as well
as helping us during the shoot.
 We didn't write a script as our sequence involves no dialogue, however we had a list
of directions that we wanted our actor to follow. After we were set on our film, we
were both assigned specific roles for the film, however as there were only two of us,
we shared out the roles equally.
 In our final couple of lessons before the shoot, we established a list of props that we
could both contribute towards the film. We also decided to shoot at spencer’s house
as he has a quiet area for exterior shots. We felt both prepared & confident heading
into the shoot as we were both on the same page of how we were going to make the
film & the outcome we wanted from it.

2. Production:
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Our shoot turned out to be more problematic than we had expected. As we didn't
have equipment such as a steady cam, we had to hold the camera with our hands for
any moving shots. This caused a shake in the shot that we didn't want.
 We also found it hard to shoot a whole shot without being interrupted by a car or
person. This only added to the time as we knew we had to get a suitable shot to
take back to school for editing.
 For the interior shots, we found it hard to get a lighting which we could agree on.
We were going together light the room using sunlight through the window or lights
in the house. Both these forms of lighting created problems in our shot (the sunlight
made our shot too back-lit & the light shots gave our
 picture a yellow hint) however we were both satisfied with our final product.
 Despite the problems that we encountered, we were satisfied with what we finished
with and we have time for a re-shoot, if necessary.

3. Post Production:
 We started our post production by editing a rough cut to identify what problems we
have and therefore make it easier when coming to edit our final product. We started
by grading each of our shots out of 3 so that when we came to edit it was easy for
us to identify the good shots from the bad ones. This took time but was ultimately a
huge time saver. We initially cut together a series of shots without any additional
content to get an idea of how long our film would be.
 Our rough cut came to 3:30 minutes which was 1 minute too long. When we came to
edit our final product we had to be cautious about where we were going to cut down
as we could had left out time and space. We opted to use jump cuts in one shot to
take out 20 seconds as well as use jump cuts we which had always wanted to. We
also used a series of action matches to take time out of a sequence & try to keep the
pace of the scene at a similar level (throughout).
 We found it difficult to find non-copy righted music that suited the mood we
wanted, but eventually we found something that worked although we were not 100%
satisfied. We came across a few technical issues when using premier pro, so we used
guidance from the internet to try to fix it. Although it could be tedious, I found
editing was the most enjoyable part of the whole film process as we could stamp our
ideas and techniques on the film.