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Evaluation Essay
For my project I decided to follow the comedy/horror genre, one of the main reasons I decided on tis was because I enjoyed the idea of a comedic horror film and watching the film Tucker and Dale vs Evil further pushed that thought even further as it fit what I had in mind perfectly. With my film I had the intention of making an idea of a misinterpreted identity which was like how it was in Tucker and Dale, in the film it’s two hillbillies being mischaracterized as crazy psychopaths who were out for blood but, they were the complete opposite.
The length of film itself wasn’t that long, the rough cut was about 1:09 long and the final cut being 1:19 long which isn’t the longest but still should be alright. The whole length of the production was surprisingly only a week (guess you could even say 2 days as the first day was filming and the second day was editing the rough cut and the final cut). The main location for the film is the forest area just near the college and the tunnel on the path down it, it was chosen to give off an airy vibe, so it wasn’t in broad daylight.
The only key skill that was of use during production was the use of the gimble as that was what the camera was place on and used for the majority of shots in the film (about 95% of the film), to be honest to an extent using was successful besides the shots which weren’t included because I messed with the camera like in one of the unused shots I held the trigger on the gimble which moved it the camera in the opposite direction so the camera started t spin the wrong way making it so we had to reshoot the shot again so the gimble use was successful to a certain extent.
During production I thought using the zoom recorder could have had a big output on the audio but instead it was a lot of quitter than the camera audio, so I ended up not using that extra bit of audio and when I needed to the most, I just reused some of the quitter scenes audio for times where the was no dialogue but just sound.
Considering the fact, I haven’t had the time to receive a lot of feedback I can only go off of what someone said whilst I was editing the film and that was how nice the quality and lighting looked for the majority of the shots in the film, the only problems was I didn’t hear any negative feedback so I don’t exactly know what could have been bad about it.
Going over what happened during the production I noticed the fact that I’m good at using what time I have as about 1 week ago I was probably about 2 weeks behind but now I’m nearly caught up in lonely about 3 days, one of the only other things I can point out is my script writing as since even before starting college I had never typed up a script before but now I’ve done my third and they have all been consistently good scripts, some stuff which could be improved on could be the fact of marking days to try and film and not leave it to where I have to film since in like a week or in a day or two away I have to hand it which that’s what it’s been like over the last couple of projects.
To a good extent I would say my editing skills are alright considering I had never used premiere pro prior to starting at Oaklands and so far it hasn’t been that bad to actually edit my films which I guess it’s a good thing.

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Must include the following:
Introduction that gives factual information on your task. What genre was your production and why did you choose the genre? How long was the duration of your production? What locations did you choose and why?

In your research what did you learn and how did you use this knowledge to shape your production?

What key skills did you use in your production, why and how successful was your use of them?

How did you use your key texts research to inform your own production and how successful were you?

What pre-production decisions did you decide on for your use of specific camera shots, lighting and sound? Were these good choices? Did you have to make any changes during production? If yes, what did you change and why?

Summarise the positive feedback and constructive criticism you have gained from screening your production to peers/tutors. What have you learned about your production?

Evaluate your production as a career progression tool. How does your production showcase your current filmmaking skills? Consider your pre-production, producing, directing and editing skills.

Paragraph 8 – Evaluate your own performance as a producer/director. What skills/work did you bring to the production? How could your performance be improved in the future? Consider time keeping, attendance, organisation, deadlines and working with others.

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During the first week it was all trying to get the general idea of my short film which I wanted to be more of a comedic horror short film then just a plain old horror film as I thought horror would be a bit better if there were some more funny scene s in it.
I watched the film Rucker and Dale vs Evil which was the main inspiration for the plot of my short film and sort of the layout for the film so as in an innocent character gets misinterpreted as a murderer and then the characters who got the wrong idea end up dead

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During week 3 it was the historical part of the project which for me was  constructing a timeline for comedy/horror genre films, the first factor was going back to the first recorded comedy/horror film to the most recent horror/comedy going over stuff like the producers and lead directors of the films and mostly how well they did and what was significant about it.

During week 4 it was all sorting out the pitch PowerPoint, for mine I just talked a little bit about the plot trying not to spill all of it, I put outfit designs and inspirations, locations, target audience and where I am most likely going to locate the short film. I haven't had a chance to present the pitch but I think for what I've put on the pitch should be good enough.

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So far this week I've been typing up my script, which at the minute is about 1/4 of the way through as this week I haven't felt great so I haven't ben able to do as much as I initially wanted to type up and since I don't know what I'll be doing over the half term I won't be able to classify when I could do more over the time off

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During this week I have been finishing up on my script and soon to be filming, all that will be left is just to find the right shooting area and the times for filming but that shouldn't really be a problem

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So far this week I've been typing up my script, which at the minute is about 1/4 of the way through as this week I haven't felt great so I haven't ben able to do as much as I initially wanted to type up and since I don't know what I'll be doing over the half term I won't be able to classify when I could do more over the time off

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Inspiration for protagonist's behaviour and personality.

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Comedy/horror genre timeline

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Outfit inspiration for "antagonist"

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My plan for my FMPwill be to do another short film as I think that they are the most enjoyable to do

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Protagonsit costume inspiration. Sort of

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This is my complete script
One thing I could possibly change could be the ending to make it a little bit more comedic, as for instance changing so instead of Tyler getting brutally murdered he could possibly end himself accidentally by tripping up and smashing his head into the tree ending up getting knocked out and presumed dead in which the other character phones the ambulance and the film ends on sirens.

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Whilst recording with the gimble I thought it was quite cool how you can use the joystick to move the camera about which made testing the camera quite enjoyable, another thing was the ability to have it quite stiff or to follow movement whilst moving.
The main stuff I learnt was how to get the camera into place and at the correct angle I want it to be, or just upright and mostly forced into place.
The different type of footage I recorded on the gimble was shots like running shots or going upstairs and just casually walking around the hallway and the classroom.
I also did a little bit of mic testing with it to see the quality of it and to see if it sounded as, worse or better than the JVC cameras mic and in the end the imbedded microphone sounded a lot better and clearer on the gimble than the JVC.

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Untitled rough cut, lower quality version just so I could put it on padlet