Director's commentary and Feedback

This is our Directors commentary, where we discussed what our film was about and where we filmed it, as well as talking briefly about where we filmed, what we felt was good about our filming and how we overcame the obstacles of our filming.

I thought that the feedback for our film by our classmates was very useful because we were able to understand other people's viewpoints and see what their opinions of the film was, so that we could improve it for the next time we film. Also, because we had feedback on our film, we were able to widen our point of view and be able to realise what we did wrong, rather than having to think to ourselves and confuse ourselves because we did the film ourselves, so it would be easier to spot the mistakes if another person was watching, this is why we found the feedback especially useful.

moodboard

Preliminary task.

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgCoc2ub2o

This is our Preliminary task, which we had been given a few shots to practice, e.g. shot reverse shot and behind the shoulder shots, which we were to explore around and try to use in order to make a short clip.

Blogger Opening 2 minutes film: Addiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVo6Mr9A8A


This is our Opening Two minutes of our Film, the link takes you to my channel and the videos which we have posted on it, however Ieuan Metzeger Phillips has one video of our Preliminary task.

Evaluation task 5

YouTube Annotations

The first two annotations start as our film starts and last for seven seconds. We really didn’t have much to annotate for our film so we said to anyone watching the video to like and subscribe and we linked another video which Ieuan had made to our other annotation.

We also linked another video which Ieuan made to our video and it pops up at 14 seconds and lasts for another seven seconds.

For the annotations using the graph below the video we were able to control where and when the annotations popped up and for how long for.

We were also able to choose the font of the annotations and edit individual annotations for colour aswell.

Evaluation task 8

targets for next year:

for G324 next year we hope to make progress in our film-making to improve the quality and efficiency of our filming and to generally make it look more professional. we also could add a few touches to our film trailer to make it look top-notch for example we could have included more titles and credits of the names of the people acting within the trailer. Also we could improve the editing by making the cuts faster paced and make the film just as action based but also more efficient. but also we could get rid of cuts in the film which weren't as good for example theirs a scene in the film trailer where it goes from morning to night, we need to get rid of this and cut that out as it makes our trailer look unprofessional and cheesy.

mise en scene- for the mise en scene for our next film trailer we aim to improve the location of our film trailer hopefully somewhere with better scenery than oxshott. also we could improve the props and costumes instead of hoodies and jeans, we could have business clothing like suits.

editing- we could improve the cuts and shot angles by including a variety of shots and angle compositions to make it more elegant and more like a actual film trailer.

sound- we could improve the sound quality and maybe add in more non-copyright music to fit in with the mood of the scene at the time. this will make our trailer better and superior overall.

Evaluation task 6

Technologies from the process of constructing our product:

The technologies which are involved in the process of us constructing our product involve a camera, computer

From using the computer we used such programmers as adobe premiere elements to render and edit the film footage. We also used adobe premiere elements to add in music to our trailer, and we also used it to put in title sequences and credits however in the end we chose not to put in that many credits, because of personal preference, we only mainly put the title of our movie in.  And we also got rid of any outtakes we had as we would not need this as it wasn't part of the actual film so therefore it was cut out and deleted in total we had over 150 outtakes. We also used YouTube as another programme we would use YouTube to upload the videos of our footage and the actual trailer itself on to Richards account. as well as that we also used blogger to upload the editing and the different shots of our film, we use blogger to also publish the film trailer and make sure it is up to scratch.

another technology we used was the camera we used to film the actual footage of our trailer/film at first when we used the camera when we filmed in Guildford, it ran out of charge/battery easily, so therefore we previously had to use Ieuan's phone to take footage, next time we filmed in oxshott instead of Guildford and London as in London the abandoned hospital we originally had wanted to film in would most likely be closed and Guildford the trains kept on cancelling so we decided it would be easier to film in oxshott. Overall it was more efficient to film in oxshott. And our camera generally was alright to use, we also used a tripod along with the camera to take different angles and shots, such as close-up shots, mid-shots and birds-eye-view shots. The camera generally was simple and easy to use. However if the charge was more efficient it could have been even better. The tripod would help steady the camera for the film trailer and the different shots and camera angles and composition. This would help make it more professional and reduce the chances of the camera shaking or any inaccuracies with the shots.