Evaluation

For this project, we were asked to create a short film of our choosing. 
However, the only partner to work with me on this was Elliot so our ideas were limited. After discussing both our ideas, we decided to go with mine. My original idea was to show a normal looking college student entering college. But it will be viewed from his perspective showing what it is like to be inside the mind of someone with Schizophrenia. Although my original ideas didn't quite match up to the end result due to me misplacing my storyboard, the finishing product came out well considering all the editing issues that arose. 
The filming was fairly simple as the film itself didn't use that many complicated shots. It mostly contained close ups and since we only had one person to film, it didn't take long to get the shots we needed.
Some considerations had to be taken into consideration when filming. Such as: lighting, angles, safety and things that could potentially get in the way. (such as pedestrians)
When it came to editing, it proved challenging as we wasn't sure how to go about making it flow and showing an obvious plot. After making the skeleton edit of our film, we realised that the film needed a few more added shots to help it flow and make more sense. Due to this and the added editing issues, it caused as to have an extension. I will try to avoid these mistakes in the future by going more in depth with my ideas and avoid losing my storyboard, or at least make a back up copy. Sound was harder to edit as we couldn't find decent websites to download sounds. When we did find good websites, we couldn't find the right sounds so we were forced to make do with what we had as we were already behind and could not provide our own sounds. By using the audio mixer, it made it easy to control the levels of the sounds as some of the audio over lapped each other so we had to make sure the sound we wanted to be more dominant could be heard over the background noise. 
In conclusion, this film is a step up into improving even though it didn't turn out quite as we expected as it was hard to get across the narrative. In near future I know to plan my time more effectively and back up my work frequently whether digital or hand written.