This is the evaluation of my groups 2 minute movie in the vampire genre; it was a success as it’s up on the college YouTube channel www.youtube.com/stvmedia. But as all creations of Media, it can be improved. Starting with a wide shot of James (Me) and Esme (Amelia). James started to walk down in a gay mannerism, at the end of the wide shot I smiled as I loosed character, and Amelia corpsed, this could have been edited out, or re-filmed. But the low-key lighting worked well, as we filmed at the right time of day (10.00am approx) And the non-diegetic music creates the vampire iconography.
The mid-shot of the me and Amelia and the globe with the quote line “I told you he’s no good for you” Can be improved by dulling the high pitch screech from the non-diegetic music, so you can hear James’s line more clearly.
Again we need to cut out the corpseing from Amelia by editing or re-film.
At Amelia’s line “Why” The start of the word is distorted because of immediate filming, for next time we should wait for 5 seconds after pressing record, for friendly editing.
After that shot, i dropped the globe accidently, we keeped it in for comical factor. But there was a continuity error, as Amelia is tied up in most of the shots, but on that shot she covered her ears because of the shock of the loud clatter of the globe.
The camera zoom is effective in the shot of “This time i have a plan” than the moving the actual camera, because it gives a sinister connotation which plays in the part of the iconography. To improve on the iconography we should be in costume, but to due to poor organisation and the refusal of me wearing a dress (¬¬) the idea was forgotten.
The script was used as a bible, we did not used any improvisation worked, so this show how much effort we put on the script.
On the running scene in the field with Steve, you hear my voice at the start “Well go on then” To steve for the cue to run, we forgot to muted the audio track to this, so it seemed a bit amature, and again with the “thinger, globe, steve” shot, you can hear me say “Go” to cue steve to duck at my finger. Therefore to improve our filming i should signal a gesture, instead of using my voice.
At the end of the running shot you hear the wind going through the microphone, again its increased the amature atmosphere, therefore to improve on this we should connect an external microphone with a fluffy cover over it to stop the wind noise.
The best shot in my opinion is the establishing shot, with the angle shows the proportion of Steves character and the building. It makes the building castle-like. (Linking back to iconography again)
Over all, the editing needs to be a bit more snappy and cleaner, and the acting should not corpse.
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