AS Project Evaluation

From completing the foundation AS film I have learnt that a lot of time should be spent on the planning and the storyboards to make sure that everyone is on board with what should be happening. We didn’t spend as much time as we should have on the planning because we rushed into wanting to film quickly. Next time I would spend more time at the planning stage as I think it is the most important stage of the production.
We spent a lot of time making sure that the MES and costumes were right for the filming. One thing that should have been better is the usage of equipment. We didn’t make proper use of the lighting we could have used which meant that it was a fairly dull picture quality.
 I spent a lot of time doing my classwork and homework and I personally don’t think I need to improve on this much. All my deadlines were met with homework without fail. So there is nothing I had to learn from this. One thing that I could improve is looking back on the work and revising it which would make it easier when it came to the exam.
A couple of members of our group missed quite a few lessons which meant that it was a struggle as we didn’t have as many hands as we could have had if they were there. I have learnt that when choosing our groups I need to make sure that I am in a group with people that will all pull their weight and not people that will sit back and let others get on with it.
One problem that occurred when filming the first time was that it wasn’t light enough and the shot were too dark which meant we had to re- shoot. We made sure that it was earlier in the day which allowed us to have enough light to film it better. This did help but I believe we made a mistake not taking advantage of the extra lighting equipment that was available.
When it came to editing one person in our group knew a lot about the software and was able to show us and teach us all about it. By the end of the project I had learnt many skills about all the software’s that had to be used which is important to take onto A2 with me when making my music video.
I spent a lot of time on my blog but not as much as I should have. I didn’t keep much track of what was happening as I spent a lot of time on the filming side to the work. Our group blog was also not paid much attention to which was a problem but by the end we managed to sort it out and upload a lot of relevant information. On my individual blog I had labels for each of the posts which were listed. This made it much easier to find what I was looking for and keep track of the work.
I let my evaluations slip and I know that in A2 I need to spend a lot more time on them. I believe this was my biggest downfall for this part of the project as I didn’t finish all the evaluation questions and didn’t use many different multimodal ways. Next time I know that I need to focus more on the evaluation questions rather than leaving them till the last minute.