Evaluation of Preliminary Film

Evaluation of preliminary film.
The preliminary film I made with Hannah Reynolds and Leah Tait was a video of someone opening a door, walking into a room, then sitting down and having a conversation with someone already sat in the room. We chose to make ours seem like a prison and the person sitting down was a prisoner and the person walking in was the prisoner's husband. We called the introduction the film 'Behind Bars'. It was the first time any of us had filmed and edited something, we used final cut to edit and used a song from YouTube to go over the top of the video.
The cons of this video are that because it is the first time any of us have filmed, the quality of the sound and image weren't very high and the cuts are quite rough because we didn't quite know where to place the camera when following people and other things, Also, the music over the top had a copyright so if we were to upload more videos we would need to look into that a bit more. We started the video planning process with a storyboard which worked quite well and we followed that when filming. The filming took about two hours in total to get all the shots we needed, and I do think we could have got that in a shorter amount of time so that is another thing that we could have improved upon.
However, considering this is the first time we have ever made a video and edited it, I don't think we did a very bad job. Both the diagetic and non-diagetic sound was quite good and the soundtrack was quite a good quality. The script was good and we used good actors as well. The good parts of working in a group was that there was always someone there to help you if you needed advice or help on what to do, and you got the work done a lot quicker because there is more people to do work. However, there are some downsides to working in a group. For example, if one person wasn't in a lesson for a specific reason, all of our work was saved on one desktop so we couldn't get any work done when she was not there. However, all in all, I think working as a group has more advantages than disadvantages, such as there is always there to hold something or help you filming, and if there is someone not there at the time you can always compromise later on.