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Trust thriller Evaluation.

My strengths when doing the thriller project was that I felt that I was quite organised in the pre-production work, I wrote down what everyone did in the group by using meeting sheets, I recorded the date and time my group and I had a meeting, what we discussed and what our plans were. I also wrote down on minute sheets everyone’s roles in the pre-production work, including when they started it with the date and time. I did a variety of pre-production work from the codes of practice and copyright, to the shot list and prop/clothing list. I always turned up and was in time for filming sessions, and met up with others who didn’t know where the set location was, to help them get there, so I was reliable to the other group members.  I felt that I my camera skills were better than in the children’s drama. It was my main role in the production as I was the head camera woman in our thriller. I did most shots in the production and when my camera assistant Jason did some filming I was there telling him where to position the camera and for how long to film. I felt that my camera skills were not too shaky and I had a range of shots. I also have progressed from the children’s drama in editing. I was able to use a few more affects such as changing the colour of the clips so they matched the others or to set the scene, and learnt a bit more about over lapping the audio so it flowed better and staying within the 180 degree line. I feel that I did improve with my weakness I said in my children’s drama evaluation. There were a range of shots in our thriller like over-the- shoulder and I did do more editing, however I didn’t do any of the script this time.

My weaknesses were that I feel I could have done a bit more editing than I did, just to put in that bit more of an effort.  Maybe to do better next time, I should do something bigger on my own, such as writing the script or doing the storyboards.

The main problems we encountered was that before we started filming, we didn’t have a female actress to play the female role which was a main one. Luckily a friend introduced us to some girls in the drama department that he knew, and we got our actress there. Another problem was that we couldn’t find a location, as one group member had used their location in the children’s drama, and other group members couldn’t use their house and didn’t no anywhere we could film. Luckily this got resolved as a different group member offered to let us use their house which worked well as it was an ideal location. We then got another problem due to the other group member who let us film at theirs couldn’t let us film anymore due to family problems, so once again we were stuck on where to film. Luckily the person had asked a different family member, and we were allowed to film there.  It only affected us as we had our location pictures at the first house and by the time we weren’t allowed to film and got this new location, the pre-production work had been handed it and we couldn’t change it. But luckily we had a good location set and were ready to film.  We then had the problem of being able to afford to get there, the first filming session, 2 of our group members never showed up, which was sorted and one of them said it was due to not having much money, luckily there was a deal of group tickets being cheaper, so the next time we went off to film we bought the group tickets which resolved the issue.