Filming/Editing our first short film

When filming our first short film, we had to take a lot of things into concideration. Firstly, lighting, setting and props. We made sure we had a quite dark room to film our peice in to make an eery environment, and also made sure Rob was dressed intimidatingly in a hoodie and balaclava. Once these were all in place, we could start filming. We did each shot 2/3 times to make sure when it came round to editing our peice, we had a variety of shots to chose from, just incase some of them didnt turn out how expected. Also, we made sure we followed our story board, therefore helping us know exactly what we wanted to do for each shot, meaning we could get the job done quicker. Once we had completed all our filming, we went onto the Mac iMovie program to edit.

Once we had uploaded our movie onto iMovie, we went through all our footage and picked the best clips. We then deleted the unwanted excess. After that, we made sure all our footage flowed properly, so that the story followed on and to make sure we had included all the criteria.

In my opinion, i feel our first short film went ok. Some possitives were our planning, we knew exactly what we wanted to do before we set out, therefore we had no arguments or disagreements on what we were going to film. Futhermore, we made sure we followed the criteria, making sure we had included the necessary camera shots etc.
Some negatives were the way our film flowed. I feel it's a little jumpy and maybe we should of filmed some of the segments all at once, rather in lots of seperate takes. I feel like this would make our film flow better. Also, we ran out of time in editing, so it was a shame we couldn't add music to it, to add drama and more pace to our movie.
Overall im happy with our peice, as we have met up to the criteria and thought up a good interesting storyline.