Exhibition and Evaluation

From this whole experience i have learned so much from these past 5 weeks. I can say that now i understand fully of how media production works and i have built skills and good knowledge through out. Through my own primary research i was looking for different locations to shoot the film. I had to see the appropriate and suitable place for a horror film to be shot. We also showed our film to the class and we saw there reactions. Through secondary research it was not my script to film, it was Jamie's and we were in his group. Also we got reviews form the class from the feedback sheet and that tells us what we did well and how to improve. It will tell us how scary our horror film actually is by looking at the audience reactions and if they looked scared than we have met the horror genre successfully.
The past research has helped me with this whole project, things like urban legends helped me because i got inspired by one of their stories such as 'hairy monster' and it helped us to get an idea of what we want our group film to be about. Also in Martins lesson we made our own horror poster on Photoshop and that helped us because you can make it in your own creative way of how you want the horror film to look. Also with Sally we took different photos around the college give us an idea of possible locations to shoot a horror film.

The first week was kinda challenging as we had to write our own script, and i have never done that before so i had to really engage myself into doing this by thinking of a story that i could come up with. I had done the script and gave it to David as he was gonna give me feedback. He said he liked the idea of my story but i had some errors in the script which i had to fix. We also had to pitch our script which i was kinda nervous about but at the same time it did make me feel more confident. My script was not chosen which i didn't mind because this was my first time pitching and i knew there would be better scripts out there. After that we were put into groups, and who had the best script was the leader/director of the group. I was in Jamie's group which was just me and Maria. I felt alright with the group because we had one experienced student which was Maria who's done this before.Me and Jamie have never done a film before so we were learning during these weeks.

The second week was very busy as we had to as a group decide who's doing what for Pre-production. I had to create a time plan, Maria was creating the storyboard and she used Celtx and Jamie was organising his script to see if maybe he could change somethings.

The third week it was production week and, that's when David introduced us to the video camera, lights, tripods and the boom pole mic.He even showed us how the boom pole mic works and we hear people speaking through headphones. When we were ready to film we borrowed the equipment from the technicians room and we went straight to Jamie's house to start filming. As we took out the equipment's out we noticed that there was no cable for the boom pole mic and that kinda frustrated me because our film will have no sound and i know that 50% of a film is sound. We couldn't do anything so we filmed anyway hoping that the video camera could get the sounds.Other than that we did film really well and we had fun doing this together.

The fourth week was post production which is when we start editing our film.Since we knew our film had no sound we wanted to do voice over for when the actors are speaking. We did one for Aaingel and Maria but then we decided to take of the voice over as we thought it sounded and looked weird in the film. It looked very unnatural so we left it out. It was kinda like a silence film but it did have music and sound effects. We added that to the film, we used the editing software Adobe Premiere which i had no idea on how to use.Maria would do most of the editing at the beginning as she is more experienced then me and Jamie.I saw how she was using it and looking at what she was doing and i learned so much on how to edit using that software. Its actually easy and i think i could actually make my own film and edit it myself. Overtime me and Jamie would take over the editing as we have learned on how to use it. We added special effects like "glass jar opening and closing", "phone put down" etc. I was the one who researched what horror themed music we should use for our film and i found lots on you tube. We all picked and agreed on one so we used that one only. When we finally showed our film to the class we got feedback from the different groups and some of them said it good and others said it was ok, but i could agree as our film didn't really have a story plot to it in the end part, because it looks like it just skipped into another story. But we tried and this is our first film so it wont be perfect but i have learnt a lot and i know what to do next time to improve.

Overall, i can say that this was a stressful, fun working experience that i will never forget. Me and my group have worked really hard and were constantly worried if our film was bad as it had no sound but then we realised its ok as this is our first time and i'm just happy that we at least had something to show to everyone.