Evaluation Activity 8 - What targets will you set yourself for G324 next year; when you will make a trailer?

Next year as we will be creating a trailer will we be able to do things on a much larger scale. We will be able to have more people involved, more things going on, more make up effects etc. If we choose to do horror again this would be a great opportunity to expand on what we have created this year. We will be able to make things bigger and better as we do not have to focus on just one thing, we will be able to focus on a range of events that may happen in the actual film. With the making of a trailer for our g324 portfolio production we have the opportunity to show each of the three narrative stages in our work, which means we have the opportunity to use a wide range of location in our production to make it more dynamic and make the audience feel the film has a bigger production budget. If we did do a horror film again we would be able to have more characters and those characters would be bale to have special effect make up, like Harriet did in our opening 2 minutes. This would really give our trailer the professional look and really show off our understanding of what is included in a horror film and how we can show this in our trailer.

Something that i would have done differently is filmed in a different location. We had to film at the school as we were not able to film at the location we chose originally. This did not leave us much time to decide on a different location as we would of had to change most of the story line.  This was quite a big problem at the start of the filming process but we managed to overcome this and create a film that was of good quality. I would have done this differently because it caused a few problems for the group and we had to change quite a few things that had already been arranged/done. It also was not really a horror setting conventionally so if we did film somewhere else it would have created more of a scary and haunted atmosphere. Another thing that i would have done differently is film each scene from a few different angles/camera shots. This is because it would have given us more variety and would have given us more options on how our film would have looked. If we did do this we would have been able to put the best shot into our film, which would have made our film look even better.  If we choose to make a horror film next time we could use a range of settings but also cross cut between night and day.

In our next production i think we will plan the location of where we are going to film first and make sure that there is no sudden changes that could affect the rest of the production. We will also make sure to film scenes from different angles and perspectives to make sure we get the shot that looks perfect and that we are both satisfied with. In the next production we will make sure that we will make things bigger and better. We will make sure that we include more characters and give them more special effects make up as we thought it really brought our film together and showed it was a horror film. In regards to sound one of the things we will aim to do is use ADR to rerecord dialogue.  We had a great length of dialogue in our film and didn't use things like lapel microphones.  In our next production we will aim to rerecord speech and dialogue in order to place it back over images by deleting the original audio tracks when we film raw footage.

Targets that I will set myself;

• Camera - Film each scene from a different angle/perspective to give us more variety when we are editing out film. 
• Mise en scene - Make sure our location is the first thing we sort out, have costumes that are more striking and not plain and include more special effects make up. 
• Editing - Be more harsh on the cutting of videos to make sure we just include the main part that people will want to see. 
• Sound - Rerecord speech and dialogue so we will be able to place them over images.