Self evaluationPre-productionWhat was wrong.

I feel that when we started the pre-production section of the task we did not fully understand how little time we had to complete everything nor did we understand how useful this would prove in helping us latter on which resulted in our group not finishing some of the tasks to as high a standard as we could which can be seen most clearly in our timings which I believe was lacklustre and could have been done to a higher standard which would have resulted in a much better product. Another issue our group had was we was unable to reach agreements about when the group could meet after school which resulted in time that could be better spent working sorting out issues that arose such as when we discovered we did not have a suitable location for the house scenes and had to find a work around.

What went well

I believe that our group despite these issues worked well together and managed to deal with these issues for the most part managed to deal with them which allowed us to make a better product than if we did not work so well together. I believe the reason that we worked well together was due to us all knowing each other meaning we could cover for each other’s weaknesses and being happy to cover for someone else if they were will which meant as we all had input on work it helped to cover our weaknesses for example despite my poor level of grammar for the most part the work I created still had a decent level of grammar as Talia would look over it after and make slight adjustments while despite her not always knowing the information needed did not have to keep looking it up as I could give a decent explanation which helped her.

ProductionWhat went wrong

The biggest issue that I believe our group had occurred while we were filming as we did not take as much of a variety of shots as we needed which lead us to have many problems later once we got to editing the reason for this is we were unable

to meet up as much as we should have due to different members of our group having different family obligations such as Allister having to help with taking down his Christmas decoration, Talia with Shabbat. Even worse than this was that as we started to film before the decorations were taken down it meant that we had less time to film the shots inside than we had planned for as we did not realise the issues to continuity that this would cause beforehand. As well as this several of our shots were timed around sun set which meant that we had little time to film them and get the weather correct which could be seen in the different in colour between the farther falling and when he was on the ground.

What went well.

I believe that what our group did well with the actual production side of things was how we managed the makeup which looked really good mand helped to create the effect that we was aiming for improving quality of the video and how when we was filming we had two people comparing what would make a good shot which meant that we had far better framing and quality to our shots than if we had decided that either the director or main camera man alone would be the person to decided what shots we would use and take this also allowed for us to better spot mistakes that we made with continuity and framing which later meant we had very few issues with this. We additionally made sure that everyone including the main actor filmed for at least 1 scene so they would have some experience with the camera for the horror movie.

Post productionWhat was wrong

I feel that when we was working on the post production and editing of the music video we relied to heavily on Allister asking him for advice when we was doing work and leaving him to do most of it as he stated he had experience with this which means the other members of the group do not have as much experience than I would prefer another issue at this point was we had trouble with making sure that we did the production schedule weekly like we was supposed to so instead was forced to resort to writing down in a not book and then typing it up. The biggest issue though was cutting on the beat as we found we quick often was a few frames off meaning that it had to be adjusted which took time that could have been better spent on other things.

What was good

I believe that where our group expelled in the post production was that we exploited that Allister had experience which meant we ended up with a higher quality product than if we had by not doing this. Additionally, I feel we manage to keep the amount of time we spent editing split up well despite using Allister to help us while we were trying to do it which meant that we all got some experience even though Allister did most of this job. As well as these things, what we did best in this section was we did a lot of assessing what we had done already together which allowed us to share opinions of what we could improve and help to pick out mistake we had made quite well.