In my group we was given the script shift and each put into pacific roles. Once given the script we had to interpret it into our own version. It was based on the genre conspiracy
Pre Production
As the director I broke it down using Celtix, So we could highlight the key areas that we needed to find and research. We also didn't have a plot for the film So I came up with the idea that the character has found some documents stating that the government are doing illegal arms deals with the Taliban. I thought that this story would work well in today's time as we are in war with the Taliban over in Iraq.
whilst we was in the planning stages we each exchanged numbers and added each other on facebook to keep in contact. we met up on various days to plan out the film. We also made a schedule of the times and dates we would be shooting.
I did various researching on other films similar to ours in the first few weeks to try and grasp an understanding of how to captured the effect that he is worried and being stalked.
one of the main areas our team was worried about was locations because we found two very good locations, broad marsh bus station & bio city but we was unsure if we would be allowed to shoot their but after getting in touch with them and booking a meeting they agreed to let us record. So with these too key locations it made our film look more realistic.
Production
After shooting the ending scene we struggled to cover up a bill board and replace it with our own using premiere because it didn't look realistic. So we had to re think the ending when it came to shooting the ending scene, I took control and captured a shot of him being watched from inside a car
showing him walking down the street from the side mirror and then opening the door just as he's about to walk past. Finishing the film there I believe let the audience create their own thoughts onto what happens.
Pro Production
Once we finished shooting we made a quick edit and shown it to the group we received various feedback mainly stating that you couldn't understand the story in which we was trying to portray and also that the introduction was too long and it started to make viewers bored.
So with the feedback we received we then went on to restructuring our video. We gave a 3 seconds brake in-between days to help the watcher keep on track with what day we are on. We had various issues with sound on our film, you could hear people speaking in the background so we had to lower the sound and cover it with wild tracks.
As I was the director my role was to plan out how the video should look and to try and help the team achieve this. I also helped out in the editing, lighting and recording of some scenes.
The final outcome of the film was decent. If given the chance to make improvements to our film I would have thought and planned out the story boards in more detail and we would have spent more time doing rehearsals because the acting was quite poor. However, he was not to blame since the actor we had arranged at first dropped out so our producer had to step in. Also I would re shoot some scenes because some shots aren't align with the camera and some are quite jerky.
Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMNPOvHTzc
