Unit 5 Short Film Production

 After finishing our film, we shared our film the film in a screen test and sent the viewers a Survey created using Surveymonkey.co.uk. The feedback that was given back to us was precise and informative, each question asked in the survey was made with the purpose of showing us how we can improve our product, if we were to re-shoot scenes again and also to gather praise if the viewer thouhgt neccesarry.  Q1. How was the acting? Most people who answered this question stated that the acting from Ellis, Me, and Toby the was great and elevated the narrative of the film. This proved to us that our choice of casting was exceptional for the film. However personally I do believe that it isn't perfect, as there were many times where the actors broke character within a scene. To combat this when filming, we filmed multiple takes of the shots and used the best take from each scene. However, even with this there was still some scenes that had characters moving or talking when they shouldn'...

 

 

  This was our original mind map. In this mind map we had the first scene which was the main character robbing a shop and then running out and getting hit by a car giving him the deadly six sins. As we went to 3 different shops and each shop said that we would be unable to film inside so we had to change the scene and make our character get knocked out in a different way. This ended up changing the plot of the film completely as we then changed our character to just be a bad person who committed crimes instead of a person who had a mental illness of the six deadly sins. Although the character changed we wanted to keep the scenes as similar as we could, the first scene which was a robbing scene, we changed from a shop to a house and had the main character robbing a house instead and then instead of getting hit by a car we had a ball be thrown at the robber and the robber dodging the ball and smacking his head on a brick wall causing him to be knocked out and put in a coma. Then the ...