Evaluation of our filming

First of all we were put into a group of 2 due to the lack of people in our class for filming.  So me and Sammah teamed up and we had to produce storyboards and mind maps of genre we’d like to do and what our idea was. Once we had  agreed on the our chosen genre, we then had to produce the script but then we decided its better to do without script as we want to portray our film with facial expressions and emotions.After that we then had a group discussion to see if I and sammah felt anything should be added to our storyboard and our ideas. After changing parts of the story such as the ending, we wrote up the final storyboard. Later on in the group we had to assign ourselves job roles. Me and sammah did equally all roles except at the end we decided to separate our roles so sammah did most of the filming but for locations such as Essex road south and Park scene I did most of the scenes.I was editor at the end and sammah was the camera operator.

We faced a few problems when filming, such as the camera lens wasn't focused enough which then led to some shots being blurry. This had a negative impact on our filming as while filming we didn't realise that the lenses weren't clear enough and when we watched our film we couldn't understand. But this problem was sorted when our mentor gave us 1 day to re-shoot as she didn't like some of the parts of the scene. Plus  because members of the group were off often (actress) on filming days it went difficult for us to finish our filming within our specific dates and due to my partner absence( she was ill) I was unable to film without her because the storyboard was with her and I had a late reply from her about when can reschedule our shooting . we had a few problems with the camera shots using too many mid shot or long shots or  cutting out the actors heads, however in the end our hard working  had made it worked well. 

I wasn't experienced with DSLR camera before hence I was really  anxious about me shooting alone and whenever I filmed I kept panicking inside that I might not be still. This issue occurred when i was shooting for the banana scene I had to shoot film rest of the Essex road south location by myself with the actress but then when I did the mistake for not being still with the camera, I learned more about the camera and I got into the grips with using the camera, so it was only the end I felt more relaxed. However if I didn't committed any mistake for our filming then I wouldn't have the experienced needed for a film-maker  then I did before. 

If I was to improve anything it would be making sure that whatever work we do we should have copies of each of our work and its better to have someone  you know for to act as our timing and our actress timing most of the time didn't match. which was a hassle for us since we were running out of time. If I had one more person then I would have made or added more changes to our film to fit our film into the genre of comedy and drama.  But to the bright aspect since it was only 2 of us we had more control on our filming which made it easier for us to control which shots we want and want to miss out. Plus my partner agreed with most of my ideas; if I had 2 more people things could have hard for us to settle and agree on. When it came to continuity, I think it worked out quite well as every time we filmed.

 Another problem we did faced  was the weather changes as one day it would be dry and then the other it would be raining. And this made it complicated for us to shoot our last location which was Oxford street : we wanted bright sunny day to imply and create the feeling of  happiness and enjoyable . when I was free my partner and actress wasn't free so hence Sammah and our actress finished the last shooting of the location without as I didn't had any breaks on that day.

I have enjoyed my filming with my team members. I would say we have worked well along with each other and we learned from each other such as our actress was more experienced with the camera since she did photography as a subject. This honestly aided us when none of us were able to fix the lense or not making it blurry.