Shi eld - Finished film and evaluation

The end result 

Directors cut - 

My cut- 

Shield  - Fashion film evaluation

Video evaluation

I feel like this video is more simplistic than we first planned it to be, how ever  due to the fact I was the only person filming and we only had a few hours to film it in with a lot of changes happening on set it am ok with that. It is a fashion film so the main focus was to be on the clothes and if it was more complicated and quirky then the clothes might have gotten lost in the style of the film or trying to focus on the clothes with something more complex would have lost the directors intentions to promote self defence. I feel like my cut of the film flowed a lot nicer than then directors cut as the music was a lot faster and the cuts a lot sharper making it seem more powerful. I feel like the director got to invested in having the soundtrack they wanted and wasn’t focusing on how the over appearance of the film looked, for example as her version was cut to the song the text had to move with it which was too fast for people to read. How ever as this was her film and project I had to do that version for her other wise it would compromise her university work.  I feel like some of the over all framing of the film was bad, the models facial expression were not that good  and the movements did not look the powerful. However there was a lot of things to try on concentrate on like the what the director wanted, the self defence teachers constantly getting in the way, sorting the lighting, making sure the model didn’t fall out of frame so I could mask it. So trying to keep on track of all these things whilst trying to listen to a director who doesn’t understand filming was a very challenging thing to keep on track of. I think the over all look of the film is not that bad tho, its out put is for a student blog so there for dose not matter that much about the low quality and occasional bad framing as it still gets the message of fashion and self defence across. 

Working for a client

Im not sure if I call Christina a client as she is because she contacted me for help, but isn’t because she directed it.  However in each scenario I learnt new skills in how to work to somebody else’s brief.  Over all the experience was fun, I was exciting to work with someone else other than dfsa friend. It gave me knew skills in preparing documents and pitches of ideas to share with someone through the process of what I was planning to do. It taught me how to manage and communicate with a team member who I can not be in close contact with all the time and how to develop some body else idea into a film. The film was a fun concept as I haven’t worked with either fashion or self defence so it was interesting trying to work out what skills we had learnt that were similar to approach the filming style. The main difficulty I had working with Christina as I was not just making her film but she wanted to direct it meant it was hard to convay what would and wouldn’t work for film, there for id have to film one thing one time to keep her happy and then do it again a way that I knew I could edit it together.  It was also hard to get everything she wanted to incorporate into  on film one film as she didn’t understand the filming process. If I was to do this project again I would take full control and direct the film too as it would have been easier to be like this is my plan this is how im doing it are you happy ok now let me get on with it, than have to keep explain to her no we cant do this for XYZ.

Self shooting evaluation

This was the first time I had shoot a formal project on my own so for it I had to learn a lot of new skills or at least develop ones that I hadn’t done before. I think the main thing I had learnt from this project is I actually have all the skills to film on my own all ready so I should stop being so scare/ reliant on other people to help me film.  I was given a cannon 5D on the day which I had never used before and along side this being the first project I had done camera work on I managed to set up all the setting and sort out the lighting with out even questioning what I am doing. If I was to do the project again I would stop being so worried and questioning if what I was doing was correct or worked for the director and spend more time focusing making sure the framing and shutter speeds  or elements I thought let the film down this time were correct. All thought we had a limited time in the studio it is better to spend a little extra time setting up to get it right in one time but I kind of panicked because I was doing it on my own and for a client  that I forgot to do that.

Over all I think my version of the film is simple, short but effective. For her version I had to cut it and edit it her way as she was the director so there wasn’t much le way for me to make improvements to that how ever she did give me permission to submit my version of the film as part of my portfolio as I felt it was the stronger one.  It was interesting to work with someone to create something and would be fun to do again and this project has given me new skill or at least developed ones I thought I didn’t have.