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Self Evaluation

As the producer of the film, I wasn’t expecting everything to go smoothly as I didn’t have faith in myself. The group thought otherwise and I took their word for it. Right from the start we all worked as a team to get the jobs that needed doing in post-production done. I thought I did a good job of making sure everyone had an equal amount of work through regular meetings and keeping people up to date on Facebook. I tried to make sure everyone had as much of an input to the film ideas as possible. Everyone did a really good job of keeping up with work and they knew their place. I managed to find us a good location and email him for permission to use the grounds at allotted times. I felt that we gave a good pitch and had a substantial amount of research, planning and ideas to follow through with.

Prior to filming, we needed all our props and actors. I made the mistake of not finding solid replacement actors if anything went wrong with the plan. It turned out that we lost both of our actors and the replacements couldn’t do the days we were filming either. Luckily the group managed to find other actors that we worked well with and looked good on camera. I feel like I could have had more of an input with props but due my limitations at university it didn’t make sense. I therefore tried to help out as much as possible in other parts of the film.

During the shoots I gave as much concentration as possible and tried to give my opinion as much as possible. I did this by helping the director with organising the actors, with positioning, how they’re meant to look and act. Trying to keep an eye out as much as possible for things that could disrupt the continuity was more difficult than anticipated due to the amount of equipment we had and having to keep moving it around. I realised towards the end that people may want to edit the film differently to the original so I gave the group the opportunity after the main shots the director wrote whether they wanted to film anything else for their edit. Everyone was happy to jump in and get what they wanted. I feel like I gave everyone in the group equal rights. This was a good and bad thing as everyone was chipping in in different ways, certain people weren’t established to their job and the sound got ruined, as it wasn’t concentrated on. Other things like lighting was a problem due to having a power supply and renting battery powered LED lights was a problem because they never had them in stock.

Suring the edit, I thought I could have timed myself better. I mean that I felt like I rushed it a bit and therefore hindered the look of my film. I do like the way it has turned out and a big part of that is the soundtrack I chose for it, which I think  works perfectly. Considering I’m not very confident with film, I thought that I did a really good job of leading a group building to a movie. We as a group worked really well as a team and I feel really happy about the finished product.