Evaluation of moving image project

Evaluation of moving image project Acting: The acting was done by Adam Bennett, Jan Labro and Ryan Willis. On the whole, I thought that the acting was done well. For this mini project, we only had 3 weeks to get it completed which meant we all had to work together and complete the whole shebang. Overall, all the acting was done well and we faced no issues; the only criticism of the acting was that during the last scene, the rebel who was being chased by the teacher laughed when he was grabbed against the fence. We could improve this in the future by waiting until a dry day and re-film the scene as the weather needs to be the same for continuity’s sake. Although we faced a major time constraint, the actors were professional and did not mess around during filming. For the time we had, I believe the actors done a great job. Editing and Sound: Scott was in charge of the editing as he had Sony Vegas 11 on his computer at home. For the start of the film up until the outside scene there is an eclipse effect added to the film to make everything seem darker and to set the mood of the film. He mainly used cuts to switch from scene to scene, but at some points you can see he used a fade to black effect to shop a time change, for example at the point outside to back inside running through the corridor. The other time Scott used that effect was right at the very end for less than a second from the teacher grabbing the rebel to the rebel being against the fence. If he was to do this again in the future he would spend more time in the editing trying to make the scenes look perfect. Scott also was in charge of the sound. He found all of the sound clips himself. These song clips were copyright free. The speech in the film could have been acted out better as it seemed to be forced and it didn’t seem genuine. At the part where the teacher is first introduced into the scene, it would have been better if the teacher shouted at the rebel to try and make him stop, instead of staying silent the whole time. Again at the end of the clip where the teacher and rebel were at the fence, it would have made more sense for something to have been said. If he was to do this again, he would create some sort of script beforehand that the actors would need to follow, instead of thinking of things on the spot like we did this time. Filming: Scott Barrass and I filmed the chase scene. We both chose to film because we had past experience from our creative and media diploma course. We both used a variety of shots throughout the chase as it was vital to make it look more professional. Again, we faced time constraints filming our piece as we only had three weeks to film, edit and add sound to the clip. These are some shots we used whilst filming our project. One disadvantage we faced was we were unable to get our hands on a steady cam, so our POV shot was really jumpy. If we filmed this again, we would make sure we had all of the equipment for the project. Overall Product: Overall, I believe for the amount of time we had, we made a really good job of it. We managed to film everything in less than three hours, and it only took Scott an hour and a half to add sound and edit all of the shots, also including a bloopers video. Our video has been shown to other people in the group and we received positive feedback of all of the viewers.

Horror Trailer