Reflections

We have now completed our film! Very relieved. I think we have done the best we could with what we had. Overall though, I think we could have done some things differently.

The main problem we faced was not having enough footage to fill the three minutes so I definitely would get some stock footage in the future. Also, we could have got some general view shots. Though in our piece I think they would have looked out of place, in future projects I would like to make sure I have some, just as back up.

I think we could also have done our planning a bit better. Though at the time, we felt like we had everything sorted, when we got to edit there are a couple of things issues that came up when making our rough cut. I think the most obvious being that we - or I certainly - didn't always think about the audience. Which is a big thing to not do. But for me, at first, our idea and what we were trying to show was very clear and so assumed that of course everyone would get the same ideas from our film. Rubbish. Of course not.  I think that sometimes, when you work on a project and think about it a lot, you can forget to take a step back and think, will this make sense? If we had thought about this more in our planning, our film could have turned out differently.

But I am happy with our short and as I said, I think with what we had, we did the best we could. We worked hard at editing it right and think what we have got is good.