One Shot Film Evaluation

The one shot movie was originally planned as a group project. As a group we filmed, and then indivually, we edited and created our own films, using our own story ideas.

At first the group found it hard to come up with ideas, although after watching the different examples given on the seminar sheets, they were soon flowing.
There were many different ideas, such as anti suicide, street crime awareness, a story about a heartbroken man. Although all the ideas where feasible, there were obviously ideas which would have been more difficult to film. I would like to investigate these ideas further in the future, if time permits.

I felt that the anti suicide film, could be a complicated one but for a more indivual feeling i felt that with the right editing a simple film could possibly be more effective. I.e. with less action; the viewer is able to have more time to think about what they are seeing, rather than being told.
I would have liked to have spent more time researching and finding more styles of this type of video. But searches online gave very limited results. This fact also helped to motivate me into creating a anti suicide film – to spread a greater awareness.

Overall i believe that filming went well, and although i feel that the final outcome of the video could be improved upon the message and emotion is still obvious in the film.

The music i feel works, although it could be a little too obvious as to the song meaning. However i like the fact the film is focused at students and the artist is known amongst people of an average student age. This i believe would help keep their attention throughout the video.
I would have liked to create an original soundtrack, but found it hard to build something that fitted as well as the lil wayne track i feel like dying. If my time management was improved on in the future this is an issue which i would like to make sure i don’t come up against again. With more time spread equally between the stages i could have maybe created a more suitable soundtrack.

It would have been interesting to add lens’s onto the camera – such as wide angle lens for different effects. Also we did not use lighting, due to the fact we were trying to create a dark somber atmosphere, but i believe that if used they would have been an aid, even if only used as a background light.

I enjoyed filming and editing the film using the adobe packages available, and i feel that this is something that i would happily spent more time working on to achieve a higher standard of result. I also feel that if we as a group filmed more scenes in different places there would have been a greater chance of creating a film with more emotion and feeling.

In conclusion, i am happy with the overall outcome of my video (taking all aspects into consideration – film, feeling, music etc), but i believe that a better result could be achieved.