Evaluation questions 8 and 9

8
I feel we have made significant progress since our preliminary task. In our final movie we made much better use of editing on iMovie, along with adding in sound from garageband, which we didn't tend to do so much in our preliminary task. We also paid more attention to the mise en scene, for example with the zombie make up, and adding things to our location to make it look more conventional for a horror movie.
In our preliminary excersise, we learnt a variety of skills which contributed to the making of our final horror film. For example, we realised that camera angles are especially important in giving the audience a feel of unease by using things such as a canted angles or close ups. We used this in our film by using quite a few close ups, to show the scared expression on characters' faces. In our preliminary excersise we didn't focus very much on the music and felt that this was missing and would have improved the film. This caused us to concentrate more on the music in our final film than we had done previously.
If we were to do the production again, I think the main thing we would change would be the organisation of filming and making sure that we were all available, including actors. Secondly, we would have preffered to reshoot a part of the film if we had time, as there is a continuity error when the zombie fell through the door which we struggled to fix in the editing proccess.

9
During the planning I mainly contributed towards the writing of the script, assisted when deciding on possible locations, the storyboard, the narrative research and plot outline. Throughout the production process of creating our film, I helped out with making the mise-en-scene conventional to our horror film genre by decorating our location. I also filmed some shots and helped to make decisions on camera angles. During the post production process I helped to cut and decide which clips we should use in our film. I also contributed to making the decision of which transitions should be used and the font of our credits and where they should go. Along with this I decided on some of the sounds to be used. Whilst doing this, I was regularly updating the blog.

HOLLIE xx