Blog refelction 1

Have you completed your props and costume list?
We used the school environment as our props and the costuming for Tamika was just her school sports uniform as it is about her living backwards at school.

Have you completed the film breakdown sheet for your first scene?
Yes we did complete it, we completed it as a group on one sheet of paper.

Have you made a plan with your group for the shooting of your film?
We didnt really have a plan for the idea we ended up doing. As i was on holiday when they were planning the film, i dont know if they had a particular film in mind before i came.

Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project?
We tried to use a skateboard to make the filming a bit smoother but it didn't work very well. So we just ended up having to use our own hands to film it because the skateboard made it even more bumpy.

Describe and problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming of your project?

The main problem my group has had is the decision as to what our film is actually going to be about. At first we decided to use Tamika's idea. This was then simplified to make it easier to shoot. After attempting to film the new simplified version of the film and playing around in i-video with the footage we decided to change the plot entirely. While this will make the shooting of our film much easier we are running out of time and need to ensure we complete all filming before the end of term!


Are you satisfied with your film process so far? How could you improve this?

With the small amount of footage that we have so far I am quite satisfied with it. While a lot of the footage will be need to cut and edited a lot I think we are on the right track, finally.


Have you managed your time effectively?

I think we have managed our time quite effectively despite the fact we've had to change our plans several times we do actually have quite a large amount of footage, though a lot of it is no loner relevant towards our project.


Are there things you would like to change?

We've changed our plans to many times now, our film is now just of Tamika doing random things and we had to make a film out of it, that there should be nothing else to change!


If you could start again what would you do differently?

If I were to start again I would ensure that we all totally agreed on our storyline and had all the planning done so we wouldn't have to keep changing ideas half way through. Make our filming alot more organised and made sure we had enough footage.

Have you uploaded your footage to an appropriate computer for editing?
Yes i have loaded up all the footage to a computer so i can edit it.