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During
the preparation and planning for this film introduction we incurred problems
relating to characters. At the beginning of planning it was planned that there
would be a rich man asking someone else to meet in the alley way and collect
the “merchandise”. We then changed it so that the person sending the letter was
unknown. Another problem that was faced during planning for the film was the
concept of using drugs. This problem was then resolved by changing the wording
in the letter as well in the alleyway scene to “package”.
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My group
effectively used the pre-production and planning templates that were on offer
to help refine each of our ideas prior to filming. Storyboards were our fist pre-production
and planning template that we first used. These help to show the rest of the
group our image and picture of the film and create a better understanding of
everyone’s thoughts and concepts. Shot lists were then used to create our film
introduction image in more detail and to see the introduction playing in our head.
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My group
made effective use of our class time. Storyboards, shot lists and prop lists
were all done as a group to make all ideas and thoughts discussed and approved
by the group. This was effective in the filming stage as we all had a clear
understanding as to what was to come next after shooting, making the tasker
easier on all members. Although I think that our time could have been used a
bit more effective by having set tasks for each member to get the process done
faster and give the group more filming time.
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As we
incurred in shortage of time, my group spent an afternoon at school filming the
finishing of our film introduction. This helped immensely as it left time for
editing and our rough edit.
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My group
used storyboards, shot-lists and prop-lists to assist during the filming and
decision making process. As discussed before, storyboards, shot-lists and
props-lists were used during the planning and decision making process to create
an visual, detailed image of the film introduction in each group members head.
This helped to assist in the shooting in the film, as we all knew what came
next and how it was being shot. Shot-lists helped especially through the film
process as it kept each group member reminded on the image and concept of the
film introduction. The shot-list was the last stage taken in the planning
process, it was able to create a set graphical display in our minds as to what
we all wanted our rough edit to show, which then made each members editing
process easier.
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During
our filming we incurred minor problems, such as missing props. This was easily
overcome by filming an area of the introduction that did not involve that
particular prop. Another problem that was incurred during the filming process
was finding an afternoon to film, through everyone’s busy schedule it was
difficult to find a day were all group members could continue and finish
filming. Though we overcame this problem by filming each shot with Maddy
involved, as she was though on member that could not attend, then filming the
rest in the afternoon.
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All shots
were completed in full detail to our shot-list. There were a small number of
shots taken out due to lighting problems, such as shadowing. Though through the
rough edit it is obvious that the film introduction did not lack anything from
the shots being taken out.
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My group
is greatly satisfied with the final result of our film introduction. We create
the images in our head to life, and we are all so proud of ourselves. Although
we encountered minor problems the end result that we created was pleasing. Due
to shortage of time we thought that the film introduction was not going to come
to life, as we ran short on editing time.
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The rough
edit makes the time requirements for the task. I thought that due to the short
timing on shots we would not be able to create the time requirements though due
to the large amount of shots we were just able to. The film was neither
incomplete or under time therefore the time limit was met smoothly.
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My
group’s scene does not require any reshoots or additional scenes. This is due
to the amount of shots taken for each scene and shot during the filming
process. Neither additional scenes are to be added also as we added shots into
the film introduction during the process of filming as well.
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I
personally think that the only aspect that could be changed for the film is the
acting of Sofia. Although the film is not mainly focused on the acting
performance, I found that this would make the film easier to understand through
visual emotions that Sofia could have created. Though many times during filming
Sofia was helped to show the emotion that was needed, and this made great improvement
for the film.
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If the
option to restart the film was given, I would personally change the character
descriptions. I would have preferred a wealthy person asking an average person
to get the package as a wealthy person would be able to get out of that
situation much easier than an average person. This issue was raised during the
planning process though the idea of money being the reason for kidnapping over
ruled the character change.
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The
planning and filming process for the film introduction took much longer than
expected. Due to many hours spent planning the filming process was rushed as
for the editing also. As my whole group worked on each planning template
together, we were one of the last groups to start filming which effected our
time spent to film.
