EVALUATION

Drama

The concept of our film is a short love story of boy meets girl. The boy (Flynn) has negative views about love and he meets a girl (Lily) who changes his perspective on love. The theme of journey is emotional instead of physical. The age group of this film is aimed at teenagers and young couples.  Our influences came from Submarine, 500 days of summer and Amelie. The film is a short version of Submarine and some of the shots are similar. I like the colour scheme in Amelie and I believe it would benefit well in the film.

Overall I find the film to be ok. The themes of journey and idea behind it can be portrayed within the film. Im not too happy about the sound of the film considering that it was all done in post production. You can tell that the dialogue between the characters has been dubbed and these are things which bring it down and makes the viewer less interested in the film. The atmos track and music is fine and creates a mood in certain parts of the film and as the editor, they bury some of the white noise of the dialogue. I liked some of the shots in the film and the colours. They did not come out as much as I wanted to but they worked. While blocking the scene at the bus station, I forgot to film a close up shot of both the two characters in the centre of the frame, which would have brought the audiences closer to the characters.

Given the chance to make changes to the film, I would reshoot the entire film and have sound equipment. I would also change the location of the park to look for a better one which would allow us to portray a passage of time and have more footage to work with.

The making of the film went on really well. At first I was worried we might have difficulties during the filming because it was only Carrie and me who were present. Nyle couldn’t come because of his medical condition and Chris had to go home to work. Because of the few group members we had, I took on multiple roles. I did the filming, editing and sound design with Nyle. The editing was great and thats where I found out the type of shots I was missing which would have benefited the film, like the close up shots of the bus stop scene and park. The major problem I would say we had was the sound. We had to do it all in post production and ADR the dialogue. Chris recorded the dialogue sounds but I had problems in trying to sync Lily’s voice because of her pace and how high pitched her voice was. I overcame this by cutting the dialogue and using the atmos sounds to cover the blank spaces in between the gaps. We had problems in deciding which music to use for the film and we ended up using Nyle’s music.

In this project, I learnt a lot of things and how the different roles work with each other. Firstly I learnt how to use the canon 600D which improved my technical skills. Since the 600D has similar features to the 60D, I am now confident in booking out a 60D and finding my way around. Secondly, I can now ADR the dialogue in films. I know the things to consider in order to get a good quality sound of dialogue when doing ADR which is, recording in a quiet room, making sure the actor matches the pace of the original dialogue, editing the dialogue so that it syncs and creating an atmos track using different sources of material. The editing role gave me an insight on how to place the audience’s in the film and which shots work best at certain moments within the film.

As a team, our team work was ok but I wish there would have been a better communication at the start of the project, that way we wouldn't have wasted time but everyone contributed something to the project, which was good. Our main weakness would be communication from my point of view. To improve our teamwork skills, we would work best if everyone was passionate about the project.