Monday, 16 May 2011

Research and planning practise question

1 How effective was your planning and research for each project?

  •  For my groups children's film opening we planned, made a storyboard and bought the items we would need to create our i-stop motion opening sequence. However when we started filming we created the bulk of our opening and unfortunately it got deleted off of the computer before the deadline and we had to create another which wasn't at such a high quality.
  • We also did a thriller opening, we created storyboards again and arranged when we would be able to film, we filmed on college property within a wooded area creating a chase scene.
  • For my groups Music video & digipack our plans had a few hiccups , our original idea's couldn't be used as we failed to find a male character for our music video and transport to the locations that we wanted fell through.
  • However sticking to the narrative was also an original idea and we stuck to our plans for this however manipulated the original idea's.
  • In my group the planning for my music video changed from the original idea we had as complications with filming and characters made it hard to stick to the original storyboard. However i drew up a new storyboard which we stuck to and turned out to be better than the first

2 What else do you think you could have done to improve?
  • if we had been more organized at the beginning of our planning and research i think in all of our projects we would have been more successful. For example if we had created some sort of timetable when people were available to film and found suitable characters in advance or coming up with alternatives.  
  •  We lost quite a lot of time with trying to decide about certain decisions, which cost us valuable time when we came to editing and post production. Also, with our digipak and magazine advert  I personally think we didn't have enough time to concentrate on these aspects, even though are a big part of our coursework.
  • to improve our project we could have done more thourogh planning and organsing of filming dates and times. I think we could have worked better as a group and assigned a role to each person to make our filming more sufficient. We also could have improved our editing skills and left a longer time in which to edit.

3 Did anything go wrong due to poor planning?
  • We had a few problems in which poor planning had been partly responsible for example our lack of organisation when looking for suitable characters for our music video.  Continuity could have been something we looked more into with our childrens film as it was i stop motion.
  • we had to start the music video again because of poor planning as we could not follow the filming planned on the story board 


4 which area do you think you should have considered further to improve your products?
  • I personally think we should have focused more on our digipak and magazine advert as we didn't have enough time to complete them to a satisfactory standard

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