After finishing my video I showed it to a few friends and family, I showed it to my friends Joe and Sebastian in a Media lesson, They gave really good feedback but they said I should have added a few things: At the end of the film I should have added a song or soundtrack in the background of the chase scene because it would have added to the tension in the scene. The ending of the film is very dramatic because someone gets hurt and the truth is revealed, so it needed some kind of music in the background or else it would have been very dull and anti climactic. The kind of music I would have used is something by Hans Zimmer or John Williams who composes for action films.
They also said I should have made it shorter. I was supposed to make a 3 to 4 minute long video. My turned out to be nearly 7 minutes. I think I should have made it shorter as well by taking out some of the dialog in the middle of the film. I could have also shortened the chase scene at the end. The dialog went on for a while and I felt like I was repeating myself a little in the story. I would have cut out bits to make it shorter but still keep the sense of what was going on.
The good stuff about it was the camera angles and the acting, I used a lot of over shoulder shots because thee was a lot of dialog. There was also a lot of running camera and close ups for reaction shots. The camera wasn't the best and the lighting and darkness contrast wasn't the best because of the camera settings however some of the perspective long shots were pretty good and short of professional according to some viewers.
I also liked the writing, coming up with ideas and getting my actors to become those characters. I also enjoyed the Recce I carried out and the locations I decided. Sadly I didn't have time to do a story board and I did rush making the film. The story board helps you remember the scenes and where to place your characters. I could have spent more time filming than I did editing. Make sure I make a story board and spend a little more time looking at the camera settings.
Back in December when I started, I originally planned to have a character called Jake but I changed the name to Dean Jombs because its an anagram of 'James Bond' and I thought that would be clever. I originally planned filming in a school hall to do some of the takes between Dean and Adam. Sadly the hall I wanted to book out was being painted so I was unable to book it out in the end. I did manage to get a few takes done but not many. So I had to cut a bit of the script out and change some of it so that it was in a different location, I also had to add a few takes in because of this. Filming days did change because of the weather. Next time I plan to film I will watch the weather to try and find days that the weather is good for the scene. So overall things did change when filming and planning. Characters changed, locations, the script changed a bit. These are all things I would improve on next time. Those are the things I would fix if I was given this task again. Also to cut down the long dialogue.
Things I would have added would be more clear dialogue because the story was confusing in areas and I did take a few lines out that I really shouldn't have. Sadly the film was only allowed to be 2-3 minutes long so I had to try really hard to cut it down. In the end the video was about 7 minutes long which wasn't good. So I would have add more lines if there wasn't a time limit.
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