EVALUATION AND REFLECTION
BLOG 22/03/22 -
Up to now I have created my idea and developed it quite a bit, I know my full story line but need to research different parts a bit more to create the full video, I need to create my characters and write a script/storyboard soon and I know what location I want to use which is a football pitch but need to do a location recce still. I still need to develop the main points of my pitch to make it understandable and simple, I also need to look into my target audience a bit more but in a basic idea it is the FIFA community. I still need to research into what teams contrast each other well to make it intriguing to the audience, I also need to research into how to do the intro, I was thinking of doing an intro for one of the character to come home and go straight to technology to show that life is dependent on technology and how they use the simulation to escape reality which helps me look deeper into one of the themes that I am choosing to use, I have already researched a little on how to edit getting sucked into the screen and I have also looked into some shots whilst playing football to make it enjoyable and getting the audience to easily follow the story. The most important thing which I need to do next is to figure out what kits each team needs to wear so that they match and also contrast each other so that it is visual pleasing for the audience.
Up to now I have created my idea and developed it quite a bit, I know my full story line but need to research different parts a bit more to create the full video, I need to create my characters and write a script/storyboard soon and I know what location I want to use which is a football pitch but need to do a location recce still. I still need to develop the main points of my pitch to make it understandable and simple, I also need to look into my target audience a bit more but in a basic idea it is the FIFA community. I still need to research into what teams contrast each other well to make it intriguing to the audience, I also need to research into how to do the intro, I was thinking of doing an intro for one of the character to come home and go straight to technology to show that life is dependent on technology and how they use the simulation to escape reality which helps me look deeper into one of the themes that I am choosing to use, I have already researched a little on how to edit getting sucked into the screen and I have also looked into some shots whilst playing football to make it enjoyable and getting the audience to easily follow the story. The most important thing which I need to do next is to figure out what kits each team needs to wear so that they match and also contrast each other so that it is visual pleasing for the audience.
BLOG 05/04/22 -
I think my pitch went very well, there was one question at the end that I did not know the answer to and so struggled to answer it, however during the actual pitch went very well as I spoke very clearly and was very confident in delivering my pitch, on my pitch feedback I have realised that I should do a test shoot to gather an idea on how long the different parts of my video will take the shoot. Since my pitch I have written character profiles on all of my characters, I have also competed a storyboard for the actual football game I need to create one for before and after as well as creating a script. I need to do a test shoot of my first person shot as well as a transition from third to first person which I am hopefully testing tomorrow or Thursday.
I think my pitch went very well, there was one question at the end that I did not know the answer to and so struggled to answer it, however during the actual pitch went very well as I spoke very clearly and was very confident in delivering my pitch, on my pitch feedback I have realised that I should do a test shoot to gather an idea on how long the different parts of my video will take the shoot. Since my pitch I have written character profiles on all of my characters, I have also competed a storyboard for the actual football game I need to create one for before and after as well as creating a script. I need to do a test shoot of my first person shot as well as a transition from third to first person which I am hopefully testing tomorrow or Thursday.
BLOG 25/04/22 -
I have recorded part of my video and it did not go very well in my opinion, my cast is big and that brought me down slightly as it limited filming dates, they are also not the best actors and it took a long time to get some shots, also both my cameras died and I had to use my phone to film shots, I am going to see how hot looks in the edit and I will see how it looks, I still have to film the intro and the ending so am going to make sure those are good, however I set myself a challenging project and have seen how hard it is to make a good video with such a big cast. Also the only day my cast was free was a day where the wind was in every shot and so made it harder to hear dialogue.
I have recorded part of my video and it did not go very well in my opinion, my cast is big and that brought me down slightly as it limited filming dates, they are also not the best actors and it took a long time to get some shots, also both my cameras died and I had to use my phone to film shots, I am going to see how hot looks in the edit and I will see how it looks, I still have to film the intro and the ending so am going to make sure those are good, however I set myself a challenging project and have seen how hard it is to make a good video with such a big cast. Also the only day my cast was free was a day where the wind was in every shot and so made it harder to hear dialogue.
BLOG 04/05/22 -
I have edited a first edit for my on the field section of my video and it could look alright with some added sound, however I have to shoot my intro to the video and how they get onto the field , I also need to add the foley to the video and need to do some graphic effects for my video so far, I want to challenge myself during the edit to make it loo a lot better but I still want to have a video so I will experiment with what will look best.
I have edited a first edit for my on the field section of my video and it could look alright with some added sound, however I have to shoot my intro to the video and how they get onto the field , I also need to add the foley to the video and need to do some graphic effects for my video so far, I want to challenge myself during the edit to make it loo a lot better but I still want to have a video so I will experiment with what will look best.
BLOG 11/05/22 -
My proposal is starting to formulate however I need to film a little more on the weekend and then I can focus on editing, I can make my video better with a little bit of good editing and then it should turn out slightly better.i feel I am still on track to complete my project as long as I film soon I think if I were to be graded today I would get a merit on content and research but would be just below a pass in practical skills as I need to upload scripts and storyboards as well as my edit as it progresses.
My proposal is starting to formulate however I need to film a little more on the weekend and then I can focus on editing, I can make my video better with a little bit of good editing and then it should turn out slightly better.i feel I am still on track to complete my project as long as I film soon I think if I were to be graded today I would get a merit on content and research but would be just below a pass in practical skills as I need to upload scripts and storyboards as well as my edit as it progresses.
BLOG 17/05/22 -
My research is coming into shape as i used some shots in my production of filming and now that i am in post production i am starting to use some of the research i have done for post production such as the dissolving into the screen and the song choice for the first person shot. I have asked some of my friends to watch my rough edit and they have given me some feedback on what i could improve on editing, such as Nicky said i could have the dead people dissolve off camera, however that would show that it might just be a simulation and would get rid of the question of whether it is simulation or reality. I am continuing to explore alternative ideas through the edit as my final shot is in time with some quiet music i will be playing in the background, hopefully i will be able to get some more feedback on my video which will help me create a better edit and will challenge myself.
My research is coming into shape as i used some shots in my production of filming and now that i am in post production i am starting to use some of the research i have done for post production such as the dissolving into the screen and the song choice for the first person shot. I have asked some of my friends to watch my rough edit and they have given me some feedback on what i could improve on editing, such as Nicky said i could have the dead people dissolve off camera, however that would show that it might just be a simulation and would get rid of the question of whether it is simulation or reality. I am continuing to explore alternative ideas through the edit as my final shot is in time with some quiet music i will be playing in the background, hopefully i will be able to get some more feedback on my video which will help me create a better edit and will challenge myself.
EVALUATION
Overall I think this video has gone alright due to the process as the final video is slightly different to my original idea as my original idea was to show more of the ‘on the field’ moments and to show each characters personality before they died, however because my capture card corrupted some clips it made it harder but I tried to overcome this problem and made the intro of the video have slightly more context than I originally wanted it to.
Looking back at my research I think I had done quite a lot of very good research but I think I still could have done more research on things such as costumes and some more props, I tried to do this as best I could on my budget but I didn’t do enough research on the contrasting of colours in the kits, I also think I should have done some more primary research by asking people to do a survey of questions which I did not do originally.
My planning helped me achieve my aim to show the difference between Simulation vs Reality, I filmed and edited the shots on the field first so that I could see how it looked before I planned the rest of the video, this helped as I could see what I needed to add extra in the beginning and near the end, I then went away from my original plan and made a script with slightly more context in it than I originally wanted in the beginning shots but this helped the overall video and helped to show how addicted people are to electronic devices and how they have started to not be able to tell the difference between simulation and reality.
I think I could have looked into more camera techniques before shooting this video as I don’t think I explored enough practical skills during this project, I wrote the script and drew the storyboard, I also researched into different ways of editing audio and video, such as the telephone voice through Adobe Audition, or the edit where the character gets sucked into the monitor, however this did not work as I filmed it slightly wrong as I did not follow the tutorial of the explanation video which then ended up messing me up in post-production. I do think I explored some techniques such as the first person shot which I think came out very well, but I also wish I had explored a lot more different varieties of techniques so I knew what would fit in my video and what wouldn’t.
The feedback I got from the people I have shown my video to was that it was very good and that it is very memorable due to the sudden change in the story due to the shots, I also got feedback that the dialogue and the beginning was very good and that it gave good context for later in the video, from this have seen that it is slightly better than I thought it would be after I filmed the ‘on the field’ section as I lost a lot of faith in the video, but I carried on and am satisfied with what I have produced.
Ultimately I think the finished project is pretty decent, I made a lot of mistakes such as under planning and messing up the filming which meant I couldn’t make the characters get sucked into the screen, but I still think it turned out as a slightly enjoyable video. A way I could make it better is to plan everything slightly more if I had a bigger time frame, also if I had a bigger budget I would get some better actors as I just got some friends who said they would help out but as my budget wasn’t very big I couldn’t get proper actors so I still have to thank my friends for helping out because overall I think my video isn’t very bad and can be enjoyable and watchable.
Overall I think this video has gone alright due to the process as the final video is slightly different to my original idea as my original idea was to show more of the ‘on the field’ moments and to show each characters personality before they died, however because my capture card corrupted some clips it made it harder but I tried to overcome this problem and made the intro of the video have slightly more context than I originally wanted it to.
Looking back at my research I think I had done quite a lot of very good research but I think I still could have done more research on things such as costumes and some more props, I tried to do this as best I could on my budget but I didn’t do enough research on the contrasting of colours in the kits, I also think I should have done some more primary research by asking people to do a survey of questions which I did not do originally.
My planning helped me achieve my aim to show the difference between Simulation vs Reality, I filmed and edited the shots on the field first so that I could see how it looked before I planned the rest of the video, this helped as I could see what I needed to add extra in the beginning and near the end, I then went away from my original plan and made a script with slightly more context in it than I originally wanted in the beginning shots but this helped the overall video and helped to show how addicted people are to electronic devices and how they have started to not be able to tell the difference between simulation and reality.
I think I could have looked into more camera techniques before shooting this video as I don’t think I explored enough practical skills during this project, I wrote the script and drew the storyboard, I also researched into different ways of editing audio and video, such as the telephone voice through Adobe Audition, or the edit where the character gets sucked into the monitor, however this did not work as I filmed it slightly wrong as I did not follow the tutorial of the explanation video which then ended up messing me up in post-production. I do think I explored some techniques such as the first person shot which I think came out very well, but I also wish I had explored a lot more different varieties of techniques so I knew what would fit in my video and what wouldn’t.
The feedback I got from the people I have shown my video to was that it was very good and that it is very memorable due to the sudden change in the story due to the shots, I also got feedback that the dialogue and the beginning was very good and that it gave good context for later in the video, from this have seen that it is slightly better than I thought it would be after I filmed the ‘on the field’ section as I lost a lot of faith in the video, but I carried on and am satisfied with what I have produced.
Ultimately I think the finished project is pretty decent, I made a lot of mistakes such as under planning and messing up the filming which meant I couldn’t make the characters get sucked into the screen, but I still think it turned out as a slightly enjoyable video. A way I could make it better is to plan everything slightly more if I had a bigger time frame, also if I had a bigger budget I would get some better actors as I just got some friends who said they would help out but as my budget wasn’t very big I couldn’t get proper actors so I still have to thank my friends for helping out because overall I think my video isn’t very bad and can be enjoyable and watchable.