Preliminary Exercise

 Our preliminary exercise was called Waiting, the storyline consisted of a blind date which had a man waiting, a woman rushing to meet him and them instantly connecting as soon as she arrives. We used a variety of shots and the short film was constructed throughout school using the road, stairs and sixth form cafe. We used copyright free music to help the suspense and emotion of the film.

The first thing we did was brainstorm ideas for storylines and settings and then, once we had decided, we began to put our ideas of what we wanted to include onto a list and ordered them chronologically. Then we made this into a storyboard by placing different parts of the story into different boxes  showing how the film would flow and what would happen when and added extra information that might help us when filming. The next step was to add some dialogue and so we created a script so we were organised for filming and could organise things promptly particularly regarding the actors.
 When it came to filming we stuck to the plans really well and organised our time wisely giving different jobs to different people so we were using the time we had effectively. We shot the film in around 2 hours and shot extra shots just incase as the actors only had this time free. We shared the workload equally regarding filming and direction.

 FEEDBACK:
After watching editing our film we showcased it to the others and got feedback. Instantly from watching it on the big screen it was obvious things needed to be changed, particularly the audio. Our audio had been turned down too quiet which affected the overall film and really the audio we had chosen needed to fit the mood more which was mentioned in the feedback. We also had lots of continuity errors as the film was shot over a free lesson and break so the noise and amount of people changed quite a bit which affected how realistic it was.


SUCCESS:
- storyline, it was mentioned a few times that the story of the film was unique
- camera shots, we also had compliments on our range of camera shots
- editing, in particular the split screen which only we used seemed to be liked
- the mystery character, we made sure you could not see the face of the girl in the film until the end which added to the story and made it more dramatic.. possibly

FAILURES:
- camera, due to the weather a lot of the shots were overpowered by rain and the girl didnt really fit in when wearing a skirt in the pouring down rain, this also lead to a slightly shaky camera
- continuation, this was our main downfall and possibly with more time or maybe more time editing this could have been improved this also applies to..
- audio, we definitely should have done a pre recorded audio of the voices to compliment the film

WHAT I WILL LEARN FROM THIS
- planning is key, our successes in this were definitely due to the time we spent planning
- editing, we possibly should have spent more time editing than filming as this would have meant our major downfalls that were sound and continuation could have been resolved
- acting, I think if we had of had better actors the overall quality of the film would have been improved even if the acting was not marked