DEPICT: Evaluation

Evaluation

The DEPICT Project that we (group) entered on, had a lot of roles that we allocated to each member of the group. Each of the members had the responsibility to do the task that was allocated to them. I had a little contribution when we were making the proposal for our project. However, I was given the role to do the production diary this is to organise our production schedule to avoid scheduling problems when doing the project. I was also responsible for the storyboarding – I encountered a couple of problems when doing this job: the initial storyboard didn’t go well and weren’t followed when we were doing the filming, therefore, I had to amend a couple of scenes to fit everything. Storyboarding took the longest to do, I had drawn my drafts, but as mentioned above, it didn’t go as planned. I was responsible for doing the filming, therefore, the storyboard tweaking didn’t get finished until the last minute.

There were a couple more problems we encountered during the production process such as actors being absent or have forgotten props that were needed in the filming. This, therefore, caused problems for the schedule that we were following. Although, these problems aroused, we managed to get everything done on time (deadline for filming). Lastly, I was responsible for compiling the completion of the whole pre-production paperwork (edited and as a PDF file) before sending it to everyone.

As for the finish product – ‘The Dodgy Deal’, although, we were satisfied with the end product I think there’s a lot more to improve. Especially, when doing the filming – I had shortcomings with the use of the camera since I haven’t used them in a while. In solution, in the future, I should look more further in the use of the camera when doing the filming. Although, we were organised – we couldn’t avoid having scheduling problems such having absent actors or missing props which leads to halting the filming process, therefore, in the future, we should make sure that props and actors are contacted and reminded to be on the set in the agreed time schedule we had set beforehand. The editing of the product went well – despite that, we could’ve experimented more with angles and shots during the making of the storyboarding and applying it to the filming process.

In conclusion, our pre-production process and filming process went well overall, despite the encountered problems and mistakes within the process. I hope that we could learn from these mistakes to avoid having problems in the future production that we will take part in.