Short film workshop evaluation

When creating our storyboard we didn’t encounter many problems to begin with, as a group we instantly put down ideas and very shortly we had half a story. We found dotting down notes underneath the images was easier than writing out full sentences. I realised that when creating a storyboard its more note taking so when you film you don’t get lost or make a mess when it comes to editing. Our idea was very simple and straight forward; we wanted to create a parallel of two going to a meeting point and then sitting down to have a conversation. The only issue we had was deciding on the conversation the characters would have.  With this idea we were able to use various shot types to create a narrative, which worked quite well since for half of it there is not speaking and when watching it back you can see it clearly tells a story. We followed the 180^o rule when filming the dialogue so when it came to editing the actors would be facing each other. Although the problem we had with the conversation scene was that we didn’t plan out much of a script because we thought that it wouldn’t sound fluent enough, so during the 3 different shots of the conversation what we say is slightly different than each other, which caused some issues when it came to editing.  

It was time to edit and we quickly realised that our short film was longer than we expected. While planning we thought the meeting scene wouldn’t take that long but we realised that wasn’t the case.  When editing the meeting scene they were very easier to cut up and put in order and I think we did a good job at mixing up the shot types to create some anticipation to what the characters are meeting for. But when it came to the conversation it didn’t go so well since we had to mix sentences together that originally didn’t follow. Swapping from the various shots and trying to line up what the actors were saying was rather difficult and in the end when you watch it through some of it is very choppy. Despite that little hiccup with the conversation part, as a group we worked really well together considering we had a few issues with the tripod being slightly broken and using the elevator for a scene when other people in the college were trying to use it.