Conor's Assessment Evaluation

Use of the camera.
I personally feel that all of our camera work was well done and fits together well, each and every shot is steady (most of the film was filmed using a tri-pod) and framed well, we took time in order to achieve the goals. We also take pride in the fact that we have used a very wide variety of shots including mid, high/low, over the shoulder, eye line, close ups, long shots and finally a master shot which could be used if there were any problems. and feel that this contributes to an all around good piece. I feel that possibly the best thing about our film is the composition work we did, each shot, we made sure that both our actors and/or any props we used were properly positioned on the screen. I believe that this is a very important aspect in creating a successful film.

Use of editing.
I am very proud of how our piece flows, this is mainly down to the amount of shots we took of each scene in order to guarantee this, we didn't use any actual transitions however, each shot fit almost perfectly with the next! During editing, we went through the whole film in slow motion just to determine whether there were any small problems with it, we found a few and dealt with those appropriately, i feel that this was a great idea and has really helped to improve the piece on the whole.

Selection of content.
I feel that our selection of actor as well as the costume that he would act in, work well together as we aimed to create a very innocent but normal man. We wanted the viewer to be able to relate to our character and i feel that we achieved this well. Also, these choices were very well linked to our genre (psychological) as these films often contain an average person being made victim by a mysterious separate body. I also strongly feel that our location was perfect for both the genre and also the specific film we chose to recreate. Furthermore, the actor we chose is an accomplished actor with a great reputation as an actor, he showed why this was during our film, performing well for us giving us exactly what was needed.

Self-assessment.
Personally, i contributed a lot to the piece, as did the others. I was responsible for most of the editing which i feel i did well, also, myself and Rachel went out prior to filming in order to check out our location and to evaluate its fitting to our story, for this we filled in a reccee sheet which including pictures of the location and features of its surroundings. During the actual filming process, we all contributed equally to the completion which i feel worked well. I find it difficult to criticize our piece however, if there was one problem, it would be one single shot in which our actor is not quite in the perfect position (see right) In this scene, our actor could be slightly more to the right in order to achieve successful composition, in particular the rule of thirds.

I feel that this piece was a great success and that we will probably not change much about the way we operate for the next film. Finally i would like to say that we worked extremely well in a group and that it was a pleasure working with them :)