Edit Workshop Evaluation

Rule of thirds

We used the 180 degree rule in or short film from the beginning to the end. We had to keep Kieran on the right side and me on the left side at all times as if it changed halfway then the audience would be confused on what's happening so the 180 degree rule is there to keep the audience's orientation of the film on point and to make sure they don't get confused mid way of the film. This also helps out the continuity by making sure there isn't one as in all scenes the character is on the same side. Rule of thirds was probably the easiest one to cope with as all you have to do is make sure that the characters eye level isn't to high or too low. As well as that everything else in that scene has to be in the perfect place. We used match on action quite well in this short film. We had Kieran walk through a door but we filmed it from 2 angles. We had to edit it to make it flow which worked really well. Makes it look professional and visually more interesting as there are different camera shots in that one movement.

The challenges we had faced during production was definitely location. We had the same location but because of our limited time the location had different things in it at different times of the day. One day it would be empty and we would film but then the next it would be packed making it more difficult to filming it and ultimately making us re film it. But this all was hard as we had a only one time in the day to film but it would be a different time the next day so the lighting is different and mise-en-scene was different. We also had trouble filming the last shot as it was supposed to give the effect of us using a track but because we didn't have a track we had to use improvisation to see how we could do track without a track. Another problem faced is that we had to re film at least 3 times which was hard work because we had done a lot on the previous filming session but this can also be seen as a good thing as we got feedback from teachers and every new time we had to film again we had new ideas to make it look better. If i were to do this all again i would change the setting to somewhere that wouldn't keep changing a lot but other than that there is nothing else i would change.

Post production was a challenge for me as i had to edit the whole thing again in one day. We all got 3 lessons to edit and i did that but when it came to the third lesson my work had been lost so i had to start again making it very stressful for me as i had to do all that editing again in one lesson. Fortunately i succeeded in it with the loss of some quality in my work. As well as that even if the three days i had were there i would of wanted longer to add music and effects and wildcat soundtrack to make it as good as it could be.

Planning the establishing shot

close up being filmed

Close up of mouth

I think the strengths of our piece was the creativity as it was based of a true story and we had a variety of camera language such as a close up. The creativity is a key thing in films as it makes the film more interesting for the viewers. I also think the planning was done well as even though we had to re-film we knew exactly what shots were needed and in what position as well.

Match on action 1

As a weakness i think the editing was one as i didn't have enough time and due to this i don't think the cutting was precise enough which means the quality of my work wasn't up to the standard that it would've been at if i had more time. Some cutting was done good such as the match on action shot. I think this worked well in my short film to make it more interesting for the audience and it shows my knowledge of what continuity is and how to avoid it all the time.

Match on action 2

Overall i think the improvements that can be made on my work is the editing as some of it just didn't work and also even though the planning was good we have to make sure the everything is the same so i think we should've picked a better location that always has the same atmosphere as our location was always changing. Other than that i think everything else worked really well.