Depict! dodgy deal evaluation

the dodgy deal evaluation

Overall I think this production went well, there are many things that we could have improved, like planning our pre-production a bit better, we had to improvise with a few of our scenes and redo some of the storyboard to fit the scenes, we followed the script well and nearly all of the lines were perfect apart from a few that we improvised. We also planned to film in the drama studio but we couldn’t get it so we had to use w16 instead.

The filming process went well, we followed the storyboard well, we only a few scenes we had to redo on the storyboard. I played Clarence in the production, I walked through a mysterious door to the 1950s. in the pre-production I wrote the script and helped George with the shot list, this enabled us to know exactly what our lines were with each shot as we worked together on this task. Ruth did not appear in the production as she was behind the camera.

The editing process was mainly done by Helen with the rest of us behind her talking to her about what type of effects we thought would suit the production, the only real problem we had during editing was the fact that it was hard to hear some of our voices over the music so in some parts of the production the music volume is decreased dramatically for the voices to be heard. Overall I think this production was a success, obviously there were many things we could improve on but these are things we know to address in our next production. 

Pre-production

A Dodgy Deal

Low Budget Films - Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a good low budget film overall that pretty much invented the found footage genre, it had alot of elements that suggested it was a low budget movie such as the camera quality, it wasnt very good as it was filmed hand held, obviously this adds to the effect of it being a found footage film. its all filmed in the woods so they didnt actually need to use a proper set so this would have saved money, and the props like the stick men in the trees are hand made so they wouldnt of cost too much money to make them as it looks like they were made from the branches. they also didnt have an actor for the witch as shes never seen in the film, this suggests that they didnt have the budget to have a scary costume for the witch. 

As it was filmed in the woods i noticed a few times that they used the same location for different scenes, this made it feel like they were stuck in the woods and were genuinely lost. there also wasnt any special effects which means they saved money there. there also wasnt any well known or famous actors in the film so they wouldnt have to pay loads for an actor. 

induction task change of hands

this is our induction task change of hands, i think our production went really but we had a few minor mistakes in the final production that we can improve on next. our first mistake was that was that in a few scenes you can see students in the background in reflections, also because i cracked my head open after we started filming, in one of the scenes you can see me turn around with a bandage on my head which is a continuity error. we also spelled Clarence wrong in the credits. also the aperture on the camera needs to be changed for our next production because in some scenes it appears very grainy. we managed to get all of the shots from the criteria we needed apart from the eye line match shot.

Induction Task 1