Evaluation-Transmission

After all the issues we've had with regards to editing, we've finally completed our piece, and named it 'Transmission'. I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out, but there are a couple of things that as a group we would of liked to have done differently. Most of the things we aren't very happy with is down to the limited amount of time we had to edit - 2 days, when we planned to have 3 weeks. Although this was obviously a problem, and worrying as we thought we might not get it done in time, we still managed to do it to a reasonable standard.
Credits at the beginning, and an opening sequence are something that we know is a feature of most films, however we didn't have the time to add desirable extras like this to our piece. Also, Phoebe was the only person acting in our opening so there would only be one name to write in credits. Something we could have done to improve the flow of the transitions between the getting ready shots and the 'scary' shots, is to add the flashes of the rose with blood on in between them, instead of just randomly scattered about. I think the sounds work especially well with the scary parts, in particular, the bit where it is sped up, and also the good mood music provides a really strong contrast which is exactly what we wanted. After watching our completed film we can see how the tension is sustained by the build up of the shots, and then the repetition of the first part of the film. Paired with the sounds, this works very well. In my opinion it's good that it doesn't necessarily make much sense to the audience, but our original plan of having Phoebe waking up at the end would have made it a lot better as it would have let the viewer know that it was a dream. Something I'm extremely pleased about is that our opening is very different to the others, which shows how much imagination we put into it.
Our product definitely shows influences from existing media films. Our film is somewhat reminiscent of the 1973 production, 'Don't Look Now', as it also has a scene at the end in which previous shots are shown again, at a faster pace. We also were influence a lot by our preliminary task, as we really liked the effect of just seeing Bex's hands, so we took this to another level, by doing most of the getting ready shots and some of the scary ones as close ups - which turned out to be very effective. We also were influenced by the opening to 'Shrooms' - the cutting of scary shots in between more normal ones, and the strong contrast between the two scenarios, established by the use of music.
Although we changed our idea quite a few times, once we actually came up with a final one, we stuck to it quite well. I'm quite an organised person so I like to get things straight in my head, by writing bullet pointed lists of what we need to do, and we also assigned time limits, which were met more often than not. We did a lot of planning for the sounds that we would include, and also, the idea of it being a dream, and different shots/editing effects we could include.
New media technologies played a big part in our project. We used the internet and YouTube to research real media products, the internet to write our blogs, the camera to film, and the Adobe Premiere Pro to edit. Most of it went smoothly, but we had quite a few problems with the technological side of it, as I've mentioned previously, we had A LOT of issues getting the recorded material onto the computer. It was stressful and annoying, but at least we got it to work in the end.