Reflection and Evaluation

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.