Evalutation

We showed our film to our media studies classthe feedback we got was mainly positive. The elements that were being analysed were continuity, furfillment or brief, mise-en-scen, camerawork and sound. We were given at least good and excellent feedback in all criteria, However the one it seemed we had most to improve on was sound. I also showed the film to some people outside my media class, the feedback was also positive. The audiance said that the lighting was good and that it looked fairly professional.


I think we did fairly well at acheiving continuity in our piece, we did have a few shots that we took that may have comprimised the continuity of our film however, we took these out during the editing process. I think our film flowed smoothly most of the time.
Our brief was to create a film that contained a character walking down a corridor sitting down and talking to someone, while including continuity, 180 degree rule, eyeline match and a graphic match. I think our film included all of these although the graphic match that we originally intended to have which was a hot of the gaurd punching the captive going into one of the bosses foot moving so instead we used the shot of the gaurd pulling the sack of the captives head form different angles as our graphic match.
I think our camerawork was pretty good, we could have used a larger variation of shots however using to much of a variety of shots may have made it the film seem a bit over dramatic. I am proud of our use of the master shot and the floor level shots we had of the gaurd and boss walking.
In my opinion the area that we did best in was mise-en-scen, this is because we found a good location which suited our intended genre, we also had the actors wearing suites which also suited what we were intending.
The aspects of sound that i think went well were the gunshot effects used and the part of the soundtrack before the shooting.

One aspect of the continuity that i dont think worked as well was the gunshot scene, it seemed to jump straight to will screaming, altohugh this does work for dramatic effect i dont think it improves the smoothness of the film.
Another thing that i would change next time would be the brightness of the black and white effect we used, in some of the shots it was hard to see what was happening, the audiance commented on this and we also realised this after viewing our finished product.
I don't think there is much we could have done to improve the mise-en-scen, although one of the audiance did suggest that the captives shirt could have been more ruffled up to make it show that he was in bad conditions.
Another thing which we could have improved on was our stunts such as where we planned to have the guard punch the captive which we did not include in our film because we did not have good enough footage. I think if we had put more plan into how we would act out this part it may have worked, also the fake blood in the scene didn't really work either so improvement in how we use it may also be a thing to work at.
One of the areas which i think needs most improvement would be sound, although our soundtrack did basically fit our film i think it could have been alot better, to improve it i think we would need more practice using garage band and to find an easier way to quicly test whether a certain piece of music fits with the film.

Overall i think we did a good job and learnt many skills involved in making films