Introduction to AS coursework

My name is Ela and my candidate number is 9426. The other members of my group are Amber Mota (candidate number 9114) and Godgift Emesi (candidate number 9044). We are group number 3.

To access my work, please click on the labels on the right, entitled 'AS Research and Planning', 'AS Construction', 'AS Evaluation' and 'AS Preliminary Task' and ignore the rest that is classwork.

My Film Opening Sequence (Group 3: Ela, Gift, Amber) (New Guy)


My Film Opening Sequence (Group 3: Ela, Gift, Amber) (New Guy)

Thursday 12 March 2015

Construction Post 10: Looking back - reflections on our final outcome

After having completed the production and post-production stages, I am pleased with how our project has progressed significantly throughout. We managed to successfully solve any lighting issues (by filming earlier in the day in a particular corridor) and connote the genre and narrative of the film through dialogue, music, iconography and setting. The development of the project has been the most time-consuming during editing as we had to be aware of continuity principles and make sure our representations of character were evident. The editing process also involved a lot of group discussions to confirm that each of us approved the changes we made to the edit.

We hope our audience will recognise and appreciate the niche social groups that the film aims to represent, and reflect on their own experience in high school. Hopefully, the audience will infer the genre of the film from the opening sequence and be drawn to watch as the narrative of Arthur's experience in a new school unfolds.

Although, difficult aspects of production were managing a large group of actors while setting up camera equipment and adapting our skills all aspects of editing (so we would each have an equal input into the project). I am pleased with how we worked as a team in making decisions and agreeing on ideas for the benefit of the project as a whole. In hindsight I would have planned more time for us to experiment with shots and camerawork, as this would have allowed us to produce better framing for the shots. We could have also paid more attention to actor continuity between shots, however this was difficult due to the large cast and a lot of movement in the background. If it had been possible, we would have shot the corridor scene early at the weekend to take advantage of the lighting, but the location was unavailable at that time. We got on well as a group and made compromises to make the final outcome better overall.

We decided to change the name of our film to "New Guy" during Edit Week 2.

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