Final Film Crit

On the final day of the film unit we had our last crit, all of out footage was edited down to one minuet and we started to watch everyone else's final films. It was interesting watching other peoples films and to see how they had done there chase sequences. Some where very direct with someone being literally chased where others where more subtle but all where really good with lots of different interesting shots and stories.

Listening to the feedback that was given to people about there work was helpful to us as well. Although not directed at us the feedback could of easily been applied to ours, an example of this is when people where told they needed a more clear story or that some shots where odd and listening to this i could see how our work could be improved from it.

We where the second to last group to show ours so it was nice to see everyone else's before ours. once we had shown it we got a mixed reaction as to where some people had understood the film others had not. We got some fair feedback saying that the story was to weak and not very satisfying with the main character ending back in the exam room at the end, so we where told we needed to work on it for the future and that some of the shots where not amazing which was also true. The more positive feedback was directed towards the fact we didn't base out chase sequence in reality and tried to be creative with the setting which was one of our goals from the start.

The things that worked well on the film unit was definitely my group we all got on and where able to cordinate to work together as a team. Thought out the planning stages we all worked together to come up with an idea which we all liked and agreed on and once we got feedback from it we could change it again until we where all happy with the idea. Another thing which worked well was the filming stage we all worked really well as a group in sharing the roles of filming with us all each getting our fair share to do. Editing worked well as just like before with the filming we shared the role and got on with it each doing different scenes.

Things which did not work so well was the amount we filmed, we thought we had quite a lot but when we came to editing we realised that we did not have all the shots we needed but we had to make do with it. Another thing that did not work so well was our story. the final story we all thought was good but it turns out that it was not as good as we believed which was a shame.

For the future i think getting more options from people outside of the group to look at the story and see what they think and showing the rough edits of the film to see if they understand it will be a good thing to do.

Although not perfect i am happy with the end result of our final film and here it is.