Year 10 Media Arts Short Film
Production – Term 01 Mr. Andrews
Task 1: Self-reflection and
evaluation:
Please answer each question
using complete sentences, including as much detail as possible.
Discuss your feelings about the
production task: Please explain your responses:
·
Did you
enjoy creating your short film?
Yes I did enjoy creating my short film
because it was my first time making a actual film which we needed to set up the
lighting and using reflector and stuff.
·
Are you satisfied
with the final result?
I’m satisfied with the final result as
we learnt a lot and got experience for filming and I think the film did turn
out quite well.
·
Did your
film turn out as well as you pictured?
Some of
the scenes turned out as well as I pictured but some of them didn’t. The film I
pictured was more dramatic and scary, as I’ve watched quite a lot of horror
films before.
·
Would
like to change or improve any aspects of your final film (storyline, shots, editing
etc.)?
I would like to change the storyline to
the original one, which the character got bullied by her victim when she’s
little and she’s looking for her victim, in which I think it’s more scary and
mysterious.
·
If you
could start the project again, what would you do differently?
If I
could start the project again, I would film from more angles in order to show
the character’s facial expressions and make the film more dramatic.
As this task focused on
mise-en-scene and cinematography, describe:
·
How you
used specific elements of mise-en-scene to depict your film’s genre and enhance
the narrative?
·
How you
used specific shot types to convey the storyline without dialogue?
Using
different shot types like close up to show the facial expression of the
character and extreme close up to the character’s hand to show what she’s
holding or what she’s trying to do.
·
Whether
the intended genre is depicted clearly or if this could be improved?
I reckon
the intened genre is depicted clearly at the beginning of the movie as it creat
an illusion to the audience that the character’s going to kill a person.
Reflecting upon your completed task,
respond to the following points:
·
How did
other people respond to your rough-edit? Did you use their feedback to make
changes to the film?
People
didn’t really understand what was going on as the Instagram part, which is
showing that she’s cyber bullied, was so blurry so people were not able to see,
and they thought toilet part was confusing as well. We did use their feedback
to make changes to the film, like changing to toilet scene to a scene that
she’s throwing everything onto the floor to show her anger so that everything’s
clearer and more obvious.
·
Did your
group use the planning and analysis tools effectively? (storyboards, shot
lists, mise-en-scene evaluation).
We did
use the storyboard but we didn’t use the shot list as much, as we all pretty
much got the idea of what we were going to do and how we were going to film.
·
Did
shooting require more or less time than you thought? Why?
The shooting required more time than I
thought, as we were not really familiar with the lighting and what angle was
the best to shoot.
·
Were
there any problems or difficulties during filming and how did this affect your
project. (Difficulties may include; shooting, technical, time-management, teamwork,
absences or editing etc.);
There
were problems during filming. As there was a cyclone and school got cancelled,
lilia and I could not go on leave so miho had to come to school to film where
as we were going to film outside of school so the film would have looked look a
bit cooler. We did have different ideas when we were filming and we did
communicate, in which communication is always the most important thing when
doing a group project.
·
Discuss
whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to support your work?
(Look at your blogs and consider if it looks like a terms worth of work);
I think I
do have detailed reflections to support my work although I didn’t update my blog
regularly.
