My group consisted of me, Wil Allen and Jude Clark. I was the lead camera man and co editor along side Wil. Wil was also co editor and composed and edited the music to our video. Jude was the lead character role and created and edited his narration. Overall I think the group worked well as we got the task done within the time given and the final production went well. I think if we were to do it again we could do with a little more planning and we could spend more time editing and perfecting it.
We decided to use the basic story of Hansel and Gretel but include the stock characters of a noir film. We made The Witch the femme fatal which seduced the Hansel which was the every-man. Gretel was the girl next door which rejuvenated the every-man from his 'bad decisions'. We also added our own characters which were the 'horrible' parents which sent them off into the woods for some 'sweets'. I feel that in the final production we were able to show who was who and that it was clear to the audience which character they were and what role they had, when we were given feedback we were told the story and narrative was 'easy' and 'clear' to understand.
During the making of our task we chose to film in the woods to keep the original theme of Hansel and Gretel and we decided to use a drama studio to film for the witches house however we thought that this location did not work well with the theme so we instead used Jude's house which fitted with the modern/noir theme. For the editing, the software I used was imovie as it was able to do everything we wanted like add filters. For one of the scenes in the woods I found that the camera was not steady so i had to edit this but there was only so much I could do using the software so if we had more time i would re-film that scene so the film flowed together more. We decided to compose our own music so it fitted our style more. Wil was in charge of the composing the music as he was experienced in that area, this worked well as it built up tension leading the gun scene and kept the scenes flowing together.
Overall I think it went well as our classmates enjoyed the film but to improve we could re-visit the editing as one or two scenes had a few mistakes but I feel that it was a success and we met the brief which was to include the 180 degree rule and i think we kept continuity throughout the production.
media evaluation from adam on Vimeo.
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