Evaluation

Me and Craig have now finished all out filming and have also finished editing out project, overall the whole thing went well however there were some small issues we encountered. One of out main problems we encountered was that we didnt make a production log or take a small notepad around with us, if we had done this it would of helped us plan things out and identify problems more efficiently. If we were to make another film/movie i would definatley plan better and take a notepad and pen with me as i filmed.

In our film we went for a comedy style of filming. We tried to achive this by using a stereotypical nerd style character and giving him a cheesy american accent. Another way in which we tried to achieve a humerous effect was through over exagerating everything. By this i mean that we had to enphasise small things to make each situation seem more bold. One example of us doing this is where the narrator introduces the bully named Brendon, we state that he has two girlfriends at the moment and that he "Killed his mum with a shovel", in the real world such a person would not be allowed into normal education however for entertainment purposes we added this in.

Overall our filming went well apart from a mistake that would done during the final scene. What happened was that we started recording the scene in the post 16 cafeteria room however because the area was crowded it ment that the sound and picture was not consistant as people would leave and enter the room. Another Major hick up we did was when we was recording the bully hitting Percy we left the camera bag in the shot, we spotted we had done this when we were editting so we had no choice but to re record the entire final scene. Eventually we finished recording all of out film and through editing we were able to get rid of any small flaws in out filming.

Mine and Craigs planning went well however our downfall was applying the planning to our movie, by this i mean that we sucessfully made a shot list, script, storyboard and synopsis however when we were recording we failed to use the scipt and as a result we had to make up alot of the speech used. Screenshots of the storyboard, script and other documents can be found on Craigs blog, i am trying to copy and paste them onto my blog however at the moment the school have blocked the URL of his blog.

Our film has now been uploaded to YouTube and can be found at the URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kopt50fi
I think as a overall evaluation it went well considering there was only two of us, some other groups had over double the amount of people meaning more resources and minds. If i did this project again i would spend alot more time planning out our filming and keeping a log of issues we encountered. Overall i hope the audeince found it humerous however thats for them to decide.