Post 10: Evaluation of Skills Developed

During the process of our pre-production stage when the group was planning and putting our ideas together, I think everyone worked well as a team. Personally I didn't know the other members of my group very well but once we started on the task we managed to get a lot done without any difficulties and worked well together.

From the very beginning there were a lot of technical skills involved with this task such as the location recce and the shot list. These were not a major challenge to the group as we have had past experience in Media Studies in GCSE so therefore we tackled the tasks well and managed to get a lot of detail into it, which is what we wanted. Along with their being technical skills, there was also a fair amount of creativity needed from me and each individual member of the group. We needed to be creative when thinking about what ideas to have in the first place for our preliminary task, we had to be creative when developing our storyboard together in order to show that there is an element of creativity throughout the development of our film. Some personal skills that I had to think about from the off was I needed to be able to work as a team member and contribute to the group as much as the others did and I also had to input some of my previous knowledge with the other members knowledge in order for us all to do all well as we can.

During the production of our work the technical skills that we as a group came across would mostly be handling and working with the camera. We had to concentrate on getting the right shots and getting what we wanted in the scene. One way that helped us do this was when we were filming shot reverse shot of Charley and Katie at the table, we put tape on the floor so that we could get the camera back in the same position after we'd moved it. Creativity wasn't a major part of the filming process as we'd already thought of how the set was going to be laid out and the mise-en-scene in the pre-production stage. Personally I think learnt that the catching the right shot size is harder when actually carrying it out than what it is just talking about which shot size to have. I learnt that the positioning of the camera is very important and can influence continuity massively.

The post production stage followed this, where we all edited together the shots and saw our film finally come together. We had to use the edit suite and make decisions on which shots to take and add to the film, one problem here that we had to overcome was getting the right camera and lead in order to connect it up to the camera to get the footage onto the computer. During this stage I learnt a lot about how to work when editing a film together, I learnt about logging rushes with their in codes and out codes and personally I think during the whole of the editing process I learnt more than I did at any other stage.

Looking back at the preliminary, I think as a group we didn't do a bad job but there could be some improvements. Such as following the script and not missing out any lines, which is what happened and giving ourselves more time to film and edit together the footage, this way there would be fewer mistakes.