Evaluation- The beginning

Evaluation

At the beginning of our project our group, which consisted of Me(Nathan), Adam, Thom and Josh discussed both what we intended the genre to be in our preliminary work and the genre of our main task. For both we decided that we focus around the genre of thriller, with a sub-genre to be decided nearer the time of filming. We managed to sort the location and script for our prelim, and through permission from Adam's parents we began filming at his house. We decided that the main storyline of the prelim was going to be a burglar, where the owner of the house walks into the house, see's the burglar and kills him. This was concluded with a fade-out and then a fade-in, which positioned the murderer infront of the house, throwing the murder weapon into the ground and running away. We were very happy with our prelim as it demonstrated match on action, shot/reverse shot and that we understood the 180-degree rule. As we already had a location we also decided to start filming our main task, which we decided as being a pyshcolical thriller, and by receiving offers from friends to become actors we managed to film a very impressive start.

Once we finished filming our prelim, and the beginning of our main task, we came back into school, used the media facilities and were suddenly put under the realisation that the facilities that we had weren't going to be able to handle the camera which we had used. That camera which we speak of was, HD, yes high definition. It made the entire film look beautiful, however we were unable to load any of clips to the computers. Oh dear!! Absolute devastation followed from this point. Our confidence wilted, and we were left feeling as if we had completely wasted our time. Both our entire prelim was lost, as well as the beginning of our main task.

After we had got over the initial shock of losing all of our hard work, we then were dealt another blow, as one of the integral parts of our group decided to leave the course and leave the sixth form. This once again meant that we had to redraft the entire project, with a new script and a new storyboard. After once again deciding what we were going to do in our prelim, this was filmed as quickly as possible as we wanted to concentrate more on the main task, and we then moved onto researching into other products and planning the whole main task.