overall reflections

1. GROUP REFLECTIONS
RESEARCH, FILMING AND POST PRODUCTION
credited by Luca

2. • Throughout the course of the project, our group
has come up with many reflections;
• strengths
• weaknesses
• brief overview of activities

3. STRENGTHS
• Our blogging skills have improved. When looking through our
blog, you can see we have spaced out the work completed,
showing our ‘creative journey.’ This started from the
beginning of the task where we made individual blogs to show
our preliminary tasks and then a group blog to show
everything we completed.
• After completing tasks set at the beginning of the project we
used our own minds to think about what we needed to add
to the task to get the best grade

4. • Our filming skills have massively improved. When
looking at the first cut of the trailer there is a
limited amount of camera shots, and after
feedback we decided to re-film everything using
different techniques.
• During different scenes in the trailer you will see
more than three/four different camera shots
which adds variation to the movie trailer. This
includes POV, handheld, over-the-shoulder and
different angled shots

5. • With reference to filming, we greatly
improved in our ability to film in different
locations, and use our time wisely. During the
half term our group decided to film for two
days, and we thought that was all we needed
to film.
• After reviewing the clips and the trailer we
put together, we came up with a filming
schedule which would enable to complete the
project within the given time scale.

6. WEAKNESSES
• Our ability to work as a group has cost us greatly
during the task, which also effected our time
management.
• Due to all of us disagreeing all the time about tasks
given and quality/quantity we lost a lot of time to
actually do the work and create a good quality product.
This happened on a regular basis and communication
was also affected by this. Tasks would be completed
wrong in this time period meaning they would have to

7. • With reference to the disagreements our time
management was appalling.
• The whole of the A2 course began in September
2014, and we only started filming in January 2015,
as we took so long to finish the preliminary tasks
and the first group tasks we couldn't film in
different locations which were away from the
school grounds.
• Also actor casting was completed quickly due to
unreliable people dropping out last minute

8. • Even when we created costume and props layout,
we didn't follow the idea we proposed. Originally we
felt the main character should wear white clothes at
the beginning of the trailer, and dark clothes at the
end, to emphasis the change in character.
• Due to our lack of time keeping we did not tell our
cast to follow this costuming as we felt we needed to
complete the task to the appropriate time scale. If
we were to do this again we would hopefully follow
more of our research and planning.

9. ACTIVITIES
Production Schedule
When setting out the group tasks Luca made
a production schedule so each member
would know what they had to do and by
when. Overall we managed to meet the
deadlines up to the filming stage as we
underestimated how long it would take to
film
Synopsis
Jordan was the
group member to
create this, which
illustrated the
main storyline we
had to follow in
the trailer.
Overall we feel
that this detailed
synopsis isn't very
detailed as it only
shows what
happens in the
trailer and not
the actual movie
Logo
Created by
Jordan and
Camie. The idea
of the title came
from a metaphor
of the main
character, where
he is fallen -
hopefully this is
shown to the
audience. We are
happy with the
way the logo
looks
Audience Research
This research conducted did not bring back
appropriate results for creating a good crime
trailer. From research on the internet we
found the main target audience was males,
whereas the survey created by Luca brought
back results predominantly from females

10. ACTIVITIES
Production Schedule
When setting out the group tasks Luca made
a production schedule so each member
would know what they had to do and by
when. Overall we managed to meet the
deadlines up to the filming stage as we
underestimated how long it would take to
film
Synopsis
Jordan was the
group member to
create this, which
illustrated the
main storyline we
had to follow in
the trailer.
Overall we feel
that this detailed
synopsis isn't very
detailed as it only
shows what
happens in the
trailer and not
the actual movie
Logo
Created by
Jordan and
Camie. The idea
of the title came
from a metaphor
of the main
character, where
he is fallen -
hopefully this is
shown to the
audience. We are
happy with the
way the logo
looks
Audience Research
This research conducted did not bring back
appropriate results for creating a good crime
trailer. From research on the internet we
found the main target audience was males,
whereas the survey created by Luca brought
back results predominantly from females