Aaron evaluation

In our remake of the student made film Reflection, we used a tripod to keep the shot steady, the tripod had a spirit level in it to show if the tripod is balanced or not, we used this to make the shot steady, there is only one section where the camera is shaky this is because we couldn’t use a tripod because the camera needed to be on the floor because the tripod would have made the shot too high. To make sure we framed the shots correctly we used the rule of thirds, this breaks the camera viewing screen into nine even squares, this allowed us to put the camera in the appropriate area to put the attention to a certain object or person. During the re-make we used a lot of different shot types, we used an extreme close up of a clock, a long shot to get sam’s full body in shot and a mid shot of sam reaching into the wardrobe. These where picked because the all put focus on the suitable subject. Every shot that we filmed we had to white balance every time the camera moved so that the colour of everything was as natural as possible, also every time we moved the camera we needed to re-focus the camera to make the shots look clearer and to put focus on a subject.

While filming we had to use the 180-degree and 30 degree rule, this means that we couldn’t move the camera any less than 30 degrees round a straight line, if we didn’t do this our film would be jumpy. During editing we realised that the clock in the background had changed time and at one point it had turned off, we couldn’t change this in editing, if we where to re shoot we would make sure that the clock would be the correct time for continuity. We also found that the door in the background kept changing from closed to open and in-between we could re-shoot and to fix this but we had no time. All of our shots flow well together because we kept with the 180-degree rule and the 30-degree rule this made the shots look better because there was no jumps between cuts it just flowed.

We chose the characters for the re-make well because the filled the roll of the other character (from the original film). We also used an appropriate costume, Sam was dressed in night cloths and a dressing gown, this was an appropriate costume because it fitted the film well and it didn’t standout as different or weird. The location for our film was chosen well because we needed a bedroom, sams bedroom was a good choice for the film as it provided a good amount of light and just enough room to set up the camera and get the actor moving.

During the planning stage it was my job to story board the re-make, while watching the original film so that I could pick out details for the shoot, when it came to filming I was working behind the camera setting up shots and adjusting white balance and focus, I was also directing sam and telling him how he needed to be so that he could be ready for the next shot, during editing I was going cutting the clips and putting them in order with Sam, after this we made finer cuts to make the film flow better, once the film was done we started looking for audio and lowering the levels of the sound on he film. The improvements that could be made to the film are for continuity, if we could make the clock and door the same for the entire film it would improve the film, we could fix this by cropping the film but this would stretch the clip and ruin the film. We could also re shoot the shaky scene on the floor; this could be improved by making sure no one hits the camera during shooting. When the time comes to make the final coursework film I will be more aware of continuity errors in the background, I will also be able to film at appropriate angles and use proper shot types.