Unknown FeedOur second semester assignments for the first year are now over. Its been a fantastic learning period and the outcome has been absolutely fantastic. I look forward to the second year and producing many more films.
The result for our film ‘Afraid’ is appropriate landing above average (apparently) with 54% which is a 2.2.
Now having a break for the summer, but watch this space for any films from us!
Its been a pleasure guys 
We got the mark and feedback for the drama today which I thought was appropriate.
We had criticisms about things such as a shot of the back of a head, the music not adding anything etc. Nothing was said about it which I thought wrong and disagreed with, so despite the drama not being brilliant and the whole ‘Afraid’ experience being less than perfect I’m happy with the experience and the outcome because it will help me not to make the same mistakes in the future.
Hopefully this should be the last blog from me, probably one more from kyle and not sure about louisa, I know you internet people have been reading this with mass excitement but please contain yourselves for now!!!
Right, just came out of our feedback session for our video, which wasn’t too bad to be honest. Firstly they sat us down in front of a 2nd year film which was filmed in a ’saving private ryan’ style and was awesome. Never really helps the nerves before individual group feedback, when they say that you’ve got a long way to go to be the film makers they want us to be and then back it up with a brilliant short film. In all fairness, they are right. We do have a way to go.
However the final outcome was 54% which was a 2.2 above average which is not too bad. Personally I’m quite happy with this mark and the feedback was pretty much as I’d thought it might be.
Mainly I wasn’t too bothered about the mark in strange way, as once again I’ve learnt so much from just this short video. Working and organising the actors was fun and stressful to organise but worked out in the end and was something completely different from before. Our groups not been without its problems but eventually we’ve got there. Altogether a different experience than before which is good as you learn from it all!!!
I think the marks and the feedback we got were fair so I’m happy. Looking forward to a change of scenery and new start again next year though.
So I guess for now…thats a wrap!!!
Andy
We have finally finished the video, all edited and on a DV tape at last!!!! I’m quite pleased with the final product. However the 3 minute limit works for our video, I prefer the 4 and a half minute version we had when we started editing. This left some of the pauses in the conversation between the two characters which I think added to the emotional content of the scenes and meant that some of the cuts could be longer and the scenes that we eventually deleted where added back in. Personally I like this version better but the 3 minute version is still good.
We had some ideas to replace the frisbee scene with a scene of a man walking towards the main character coughing to heighten his condition of being careful of MRSA and infections. However we used the frisbee scene which emphasises his paranoia more than the coughing scene.
I’m happy with the final result and its been interesting working with actual actors, but I’m glad we’re all filmed and finished!!!! We are making a dvd to send to the actors at the moment and hopefully it will be sent in the next few days.
Been helping some of the other groups with their videos and so I’m interested to see the final results of those and how well ours looks against the rest of the groups!!!! Andy
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We’ve finally finished editing our short 3 minuet drama which we’re all proud about.
Afraid is a short film which is the second part of an University Film Production Technology Level 1 Assignment.
This Assignment we were asked to create a documentary and a drama about elements.
The element we chose as a group was “Hospital Superbugs” unfortunately our documentary can not be publicly shown due to contract limitations for one of our interviews.
This drama however can!
