So lets start on my short 2 minute sequence! I was extremely happy with the way things worked out from beginning to end with this. At first I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with certain things as getting hold of my actresses was becoming a bit of a scare, and waiting to hear back from KFO (Kent Film Office) was a worry as well but everything fell into place. But my shoot went well and I got full coverage of what I needed to tell the story.
However, if I were to look back on my shoot day, and ask myself would I get anymore shots and a few variations of more shots, I'd say yeah I would as when I came to the editing suite, I felt I could of had more to manipulate and play around with to have more of a creative stance. E.g A close up of Millie handing Sarah the letter. But not only would it help me creatively, it'd make me feel more confident to think ' Right i've got several of these shots, why not try this and see how it comes out ', which to be fair to myself I did, but not enough.
What I found that I struggled with on the video was finding the right music, it took me until my fourth and final edit to find something that captured the scene and what i was looking for, but even now I still feel that the music doesn't make me feel how I really wanted it to, and in that respect it won't have the desired effect I want on the audience watching it.
What I can take away and gain from all of this is that I found pre-production really helped me focus and concentrate with the task at hand, and for my next project, I know that if I put time and effort into that then when it comes to my days of shooting etc, i'll be able to do things with confidence and efficiency. As well, being on shoots with the cameras now, moving with them and shooting a whole sequence is something i'm quite proud of, now I can go into my next project with not as much apprehension and doubt, but with more self belief now. Finally my abilities with the software have seemingly improved which is also pleasing.
I'd say out of the two pieces for this module, I struggled with the script the most. I just don't think I have the creative writing mind, but I did try and commit to the script to the best of my abilities.
What I found in myself is that when I coined the idea, just a general flow began to emerge as I was writing and it felt fantastic, however I'd then hit a wall. And then bad forced idea's would come about and i'd stick them into my script e.g. Sarah meets a mysterious old man whom had known her deceased mother. There were many things that I feel I could of done better with my script, but then there are things I felt that I achieved on my script that were pretty good.
Things that went well with it were I'd say the the final version of the start of the script, I liked the idea of a video going viral on social media, as that is quite topical and relevant as we live in a world where everyone has access to these things so easily, that it is quite frightening to think about, that it could happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
I'm glad my concept changed, because it really would not of worked at all, or it might of but it just would of been an extremely boring screenplay which isn't good for anyone.
What i'd say about the experience of writing a script is that it really does take time and patience, hours spent with wandering thoughts, reading many random articles hoping for something to inspire you. I was naive to think something would just come to you like that and bing, bang, bosh it's done. I know for next time though that I definitely need to be more persistent, to sit down for longer an read more and really get my cognition's going.
In conclusion I am happy with the overall completion of my work, there are certain things that I look back on now and think to myself maybe I could of done that with more accuracy and skill, but these are things to look at the future to and be prepared for next time.
"bing, bang, bosh it's done" - i like that! Nice critical evaluation though. s :)
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