Year 10 Creative Media Short Film Production – Term 03 Mr Andrews
Task 4 Post-production: Self-reflection and evaluation:
Overall, I am very happy with the final result. The editing part of the assignment took longer than I originally thought. If I could re-do the project, I would change the some parts of the music. Mainly because of the small selection there was, and if I had more time, I would lookout side of garage band and onto youtube for more choices.
My final film was not exactly the same as I imagined, but it was close to it. I believe that my film clearly depicts the intended style. This is because we have clear elements of film noir such as the use of the blinds shadow, the flashbacks and the mystery. Also I used slow motion to create a more film noir affect as well.
We had more than enough shots to complete the film, as I didn’t use all of them. I think reshooting would have been helpful, mail because some of the lighting was a bit different in shots that were supposed to be the same sort of thing.
Our group worked really well together. We each took on different jobs to get what was need to be done, done. We each had an equal amount of work to do so that know one was left doing more than they should be.
I believe that I used Final Cut Pro X to effectively organise my project. I used different events just like I would use folders. I renamed them to organise my different scenes. For future projects, I will try and expand my knowledge of the software. I know that there are plenty more things that I have yet to learn about it that are going to be very useful in future projects.
The main problem I encounter during the post-production and editing process, was my slow USB. I bought one from the bookshop and it proved to be very slow which made my editing a bit hard because it was really jerky. To fox this problem, I brought in my hard drive and put all of my media work onto that, and that made it 100 times easier as it was so much faster, and I didn’t have to worry about running out of room.
Our main asset was using a shot-list while shooting the rough edit. This made it so much easier to know exactly what had to be done. Yes, it took a while to write it all out, but it was defiantly worth it in the end. It also saved us heaps of time by knowing what had to be done.
I used the EDL template and this proved to be very helpful. I used it to my advantage, by figuring out what shot I wanted, and how long for. This made my editing so much easier as all I had to do, was cut and drag the right shots into the order that I wanted.
Our group was pretty well organised throughout the entire process of making our film, but sometimes we would relies that we needed more time. To fix this, we did work outside of school to shoot a couple of shots, and to record the voice overs.
I believe that I could have posted more reflections on my blog. The main reason I didn’t do this enough, was because I forgot. I know that we had been reminded over and over but I still forgot. I do however, believe that I have enough stuff on there for the terms work. There might not be an antiquate amount of reflections, but I did but up photos of inspiration and spoke about the processes that we were taking to finish our film, that we are now very happy with.
