Self Evaluation of Last Years Work

Last year for AS I worked in a group of three, with Aleeza Zahin and Anisa Khan. We were told to make a two minute opening to a movie of our own genre. We chose a fantasy/thriller genre as we had a variety of ideas we could have used for this specific genre. Firstly, we had to do he primary research which included finding out about our genre and looking at opening movies ourselves to get inspired to help us in our own coursework. As a group we worked well at this task. We analysed the first 2 minutes of  a movie from our chosen genre, so we decided to analyse the movie Maleficent, which helped us gain new ideas and skills for our own movie.
We then had to move on our secondary research where we asked other people if they liked or disliked our chosen genre. We asked several questions to 5 different people ranging from both genders where they answered truthfully. This helped us consider what our audience liked about the genre so we could incorporate the ideas into our own opening. We then created a storyboard of how we could liked our opening to be like, which was checked and approved by our teacher.

Then onto he filming, we went to Oxford Street to film certain shots as a that time, they had Christmas lights which we thought would work well in our coursework. The majority of the time we filmed in our local alleyway. At times it was difficult, as we got a person outside of the group tomcat therefore he timing would never wok, however we managed to get the filming done to our best standards.

When it came to editing, we managed to edit the two minute opening and add the credits, title and music, however, we spent far too long trying to add special effects on it which resulted in an unfinished coursework and a low grade.

Overall, I think as a group we worked very well together. Every member participated well and we would always listen to on another ideas ad opinions and take it into consideration. However, what let us down was the lack of time, mainly trying to add the special effects which did not even work out to be the best. An improvement and a target I would set myself is to make things simple and do not over do the editing if I am not able to do it, as this will make things messy, leave work incomplete and result in a grade not best to my ability.