Evaluation - jordon

The film that my group and I made went fairly well, however there are a few things that we could have improved. The part of the film that we chose to create was the complication stage. We came up with a variety of ideas but we decided on this one. In our film a ‘mentally disabled’ women discovers that her ex partner has a new girlfriend. She is infuriated by this, so decides to get her vengeance by killing both her ex partner and his girlfriend. My role in all of this was the cameraman (cinematographer). I was in charge of making sure that the camera as in the correct position whilst filming, some of the shots (I.e. canted angles, long/close shot) and also to make sure the camera was actually filming.

There are many films which influenced ours, one of them being Mr & Mrs Smith (Doug Liman, 2005). The film briefly is about a couple how work for separate organisations and each are told to kill the other. We liked this idea so we tried to incorporate some ideas into our film.

On the day we had to film our piece, the typical British weather was against. There were very strong winds making it hard to pick up any speech on the camera and to top it off , it started to rain which made it extremely hard to film due to where we where filming as the camera was mostly pointing into the direction of the rain. This made it harder to film as we had to make each scene quick so that the rain did not cover the camera lens.



As you can see in the above screen shot shows the rain disrupted the filming. Unfortunately the weather stopped us from filming much more in the end so when we where in the editing phase we realised that we had to keep one shot even though the rain had distorted the camera picture. The wind traveling passed the cameras microphone made it incredibly hard for us to hear any of the dialogue that the camera recorded therefore we had to re-record and overly the voices onto the separate sequences as shown
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Overall I believe our sequence was as a good as the weather allowed it to be. I think in one way we could of improved our film by using several different locations instead of just the one. Also if we had of had the time we could have re-shot some of the distorted sequences and therefore creating a better overall outcome of the film