2. Section 1
This is my first key frame, in which the viewer is
placed into what seems to be a medical bay, when a
figure in a gas mask appears right into the viewers
face. This is the first character the viewer is going
to see, so I put much thought into what it would be,
so I chose to have the ‘Commandant’ fitted in a gas
mask. I thought that since this would be a sci-fi
programme I wanted to add a futuristic look about
the first scene, so that the viewer would know that
this programme is based in the future.
3. I decided that the commandant should be wearing a
gas mask to make the character more mysterious,
having a faceless figure in charge of a government
paramilitary organisation. He would also be wearing
a long black trench coat, which again enforced the
element of darkness and oppression. I also thought
that the commandant should be wearing a breast
plate, which I sourced from my ‘Storm trooper’
costume, to contrast the black coat and gas mask.
4. For the location I chose the medical room at Long Road
Sixth Form College, since it had a bed in which I could
place subject 56 in, since I needed a high angle shot I
needed plenty of room. So since the subject would be
lying down this gave ample room in which to position
the camera above him so that I could achieve the shot I
had desired. Another added bonus was that the walls
were all white, which gave the impression that this was
filmed in a hospital, also the white colour shows that
the room looked sterol.
5. For the background story behind the ‘Commandant’ I
decided that the reason for wearing the gas mask
would be that besides being a tall faceless figure
behind the government, I decided that he would be a
combat veteran from the last ‘Solar war’ and an
incendiary grenade had exploded disfiguring his
face, so he has decided to wear a gas mask to hide
his disfigurement. I also had to make sure that no
skin would be visible to maintain the characters
mystery, so I encased him in lots of heavy black
clothing, a white breast plate and a black neck seal.
6.
7. Shown below is my second key frame in which the viewer can clearly see the
protagonist namely subject 56, lying down with his eyes closed. This shot then
cuts into an over the shoulder shot of the Commandant looking at ‘Subject 56’.
For the costuming for this scene I chose to go with ACU pattern camouflage
light combat trousers since this would show the viewer that Subject 56 was
part of a paramilitary organisation, and the black top to show darkness in the
future, it also looked more professional along with the black belt and boots. I
was also going to have various wires and tubes attached to Subject 56’s arms,
but time and recourse’s were quite short at this stage of filming. I do believe
that since I was maybe a little too ambitious with this scene it didn’t turn out
how I wanted it, but given the time and materials I had I believe that this scene
turned out surprisingly well.
8. For the costuming for this scene I chose to go with
ACU pattern camouflage light combat trousers since
this would show the viewer that Subject 56 was part
of a paramilitary organisation, and the black top to
show darkness in the future, it also looked more
professional along with the black belt and boots. I
was also going to have various wires and tubes
attached to Subject 56’s arms, but time and
recourse’s were quite short at this stage of filming. I
do believe that since I was maybe a little too
ambitious with this scene it didn’t turn out how I
wanted it, but given the time and materials I had I
believe that this scene turned out surprisingly well.
9. The viewer will then follow the training stages of
‘Subject 56’, and see what he is put through, to
become a lethal killing machine. The original title of
‘Biologically engineered students’ was what I
believed to be slightly irrelevant to the story board,
which seemed to be centred around a single
protagonist who was being brought up to fight. So
the title was then changed to ‘Project Romeo’ which
I believe to sound more like a military operation,
rather than a short media film.
10. My third key frame is a mid shot of the Commandant
firing his side arm, with soldiers running past him
either side. I was originally going to film multiple
shots of soldiers running past, so rather than just
having one soldier running alongside him; I could
combine the different shots so that it would look like
a squad running past him.
For the location of this scene, I did numerous
‘recces’ to find the ideal spot for this scene to take
place in, I didn’t want to film anywhere where there
would be Long Road buildings or staff could be
recognised. I wanted it to look like a heavily wooded
area, but since any tree cover that I could find had
numerous buildings showing through the gaps in
the trees I could not use them as suitable area cover.
11. For the costumes I had the Commandant in the same clothes as in the previous
medical room scenes, this gave the viewer a sense of consistency, and they are
also introduced into another character, who has no official title, but for the
purposes of this evaluation I shall refer to him as ‘Soldier’. He is wearing full
body armour, with a Kevlar helmet. Other parts of his costume comprise of: A
holster/ a set of knee pads/ Flak jacket / Radio kit and a medical bag (not
seen). I sourced this costume from a friend of mine, namely Michael Downes.
Who is going to join the military as soon as he is of age.
Furthermore, I was initially going to have each scene be a preview of an
episode in the programme, where the back story behind the programme would
be unveiled, and character development would unravel and that they would
build up their personalities as the episodes would go on. I decided that this
scene would be one showing a preview about the ‘First solar war’ as I have
come to call it came about. Showing what actually happened in it as well.
12. despite having minimalistic sound effects that I have
portrayed clearly what a futuristic battle would look
like, also having a budget of nothing did restrict my
over all ambitions in this scene. However I believe
that my creativeness and my imagination greatly
compensated for the lack of funds.
I would further like to compare this scene with one
of the episodes from Star wars the clone wars
(animated series). Since I was aiming for something
like having one figure for the camera to focus on and
the rest being in the background, either firing their
weapons or moving forwards. Figure 1 shows the
commandant in full view of the camera with soldiers
fighting alongside him, as does figure 2. However
Figure 2 is based upon a distant planet with brightly
13. I however had to make do with the edge of the college field, since it was the
only place where there was no other noticeable human presence. Finally that
the clone troopers helmet in Figure 2 is completely faceless, showing that he is
part of a large organisation, and since he has been cloned off of the same
template as every other soldier in the Clone army, he will look the same as his
brother soldiers. Much alike the Clone trooper in Figure 2 the commandant in
figure 1 also has his face covered, hiding his identity, also creating this rather
imposing atmosphere whenever this character is brought into the viewers
sight.
Figure 1 Figure 2
14. This is my fourth key frame, in which the viewer can clearly see two characters
standing in front of another white wall. For this scene I decided to have both of
the characters (Subject 56 and subject 55) standing at attention side by side,
creating an element of discipline. I have gone for a mid shot, since I only had
black tops and no uniformed trousers on hand. So I decided to film from the
chest up so that the viewer couldn’t see the jeans beneath their black tops.
I also had both characters standing to attention so it looked like they were
being inspected; I also drew their numbers onto their left cheek and a bar code
on the right one, so it appeared as though they had been tattooed onto. This I
believe strips their humanity away from them, by not giving them names to
individualise themselves with they are left as nothing more than a batch
product. This is amplified by the bar code on the right cheek, showing the
viewer that they are part of a system, a system which has all their details on so
that they know all about each ‘Subject’ from the colour of their eyes to their
date of birth.
15. I spent much time looking for a suitable location to shoot this scene with, and
originally wanted to film in a science room, since it had plenty of room to move
about in and to position the camera, also it did have equipment for
experiments, which we could have used to make it seem like the government
was pumping drugs into the test subjects to enhance them.
Unfortunately, despite filling out the ‘Risk assessment’ and ‘Health and safety’
forms, I did not have enough time to film in the science room, even if I did, I
would have had to film between lessons, and have a supervisor with us just in
case something did go wrong, like knocking over bottles or causing accidental
damage to the equipment in the science room. This would have been extremely
time consuming and would have taken much longer than merely filming outside
of B102.
16. This is my fifth key frame in which you can see another ‘Subject’ in full battle
gear, with a weapon in front of him, he is currently sitting down behind a table,
facing forwards. Both of his hands are also on the table, showing an indication
that he has completed one of his tasks and is ready to move on to the next
one. I did originally want to have this shot as a pan or tracking shot, showing
both characters in field combat gear.
For his costume I have decided to use the same as the soldier in the third key
frame. As I wanted to show some resemblance to the fighting he was preparing
for after his weapons training. I filmed this scene in the ‘Media studio’, since I
wanted a change from the white medical room interior, so a darker and more
claustrophobic setting. There were other rooms available to use in the ‘Media
studio’ like the ‘Green’ and white rooms. However I chose this room instead for
reasons listed previous. Although I did end up using the ‘Green’ room to film
the next scene in, as I needed the camera room, since I had a dolly to move the
camera along with.
17. After much deliberation I was more inclined to go with the green room, where I
could include some background effects where it would look like other
‘Subjects’ were doing exactly the same thing, but it would look like a bigger
location and more people were involved. Despite this I only realised the ‘Green’
rooms potential in the project as I was closing in on my deadline so when it
came to filming the next part of this scene I believe that it looked rushed and
not up to the standards as the rest of the scenes.
This scene was showing the training that subjects were put through to become
the highly disciplined soldiers that they would be in the future. The weapon
shown in front of him was put together then placed on the table. This shows
that the ‘Subject’ is highly trained and efficient in the handling of weapons.
18. For the credits I have had them come in from left to
right at the bottom of the scene whilst the
programme is still running. The credits are also in
white to contrast the darkness of the programme
and are in a military like text, showing the viewer
that this is a military like programme and that it is
based in the future.
19. For my sixth and seventh key frames I have chosen my ‘Ghillie in the mist’ scenes. These are my favourite
scenes in my programme, as I believe that the combination of props,costuming, locations and camera
work accumulate into what I believe is the best scene in the programme. I chose a heavily wooded area to
film this scene in, the location was called ‘Bens woodland walk’ which provided the perfect setting for my
‘Ghillie in the mist scene’, my aim for this scene was to have a sniper hiding in the woods ‘stalking’ his
pry before making the kill.
The sniper being a fully trained ‘subject’, with this scene being a preview for an episode in the
programme. I do believe however that had I have been given more time in the planing stage I could have
gone into further detail and included more footage for this scene, but despite this I am pleased with how
the scene was brought together in the editing stage of the process.
I did originally plan to have this scene filmed in a field close to my house, in order to have some diversity
in the programme, since the original shot we had filmed included some bike racks by Long Road, which
spoiled the atmosphere of the scene, having bike racks in the middle of the woods would have spoiled the
continuity of the programme as well. Furthermore during the showing of the rough version of my
programme, one of my fellow peers, namely Dave did say “So the ultimate sniper duel is going on outside
Long Road?” I realised at this point that I would obviously have to choose a different take of this scene to
use. Thankfully I had planned to do multiple takes of each scene so that re-shoots would not be required.
This had proved to be a wise decision, so that when it was shown again it would look much better.
‘Figure A’, shows the second take, incorporating the use of credits, where I have made sure that no
artificial objects are in the line of sight of the camera, so it gives the impression that this scene was
actually filmed in a distant location. Whereas ‘Figure B’ shows what our original shot looked like, I have
circled the bike racks, so that you can see why I had to use the second take instead of the original. Finally
‘Figure C’ shows a close up of the snipers face with camouflage face paint on, peering down the scope of
the sniper rifle which has its own camouflage netting over it much like the ghillie suit, in order to conceal
its location, I believed that I should illustrate how much effort I had put into this one scene alone, as you
can see with the amount of detail that went into the creation of this particular character.
23. Shown below is my eighth key frame, this is yet another physical exercise training scene, in which the
viewer can see two ‘subjects’ in a fight, I have decided to include this into my programme because it
portrays how rough the training regime is, though this duel may look quite dangerous, I have made sure
that neither combatant would be in danger when the other threw a punch, I choreographed this scene so
that no punches were landed, which means that no one was physically hit. This reduced the danger of
injury and I have filled out risk assessment forms, ensuring that any possibility of injury was reduced as
much as possible.
Since I was working in an area where there could be a danger of knocking over weights in the gym or
tripping over mats on the floor, I asked a member of staff to point out some danger spots which we
should avoid, and they also helped me to move some mats which made the area in which I was filming a
much safer place to be.
For the location, my first and only choice was to use Long Road’s gym, since this provided me with an
area which was already suited for doing physical exercise; however it did have some blue boards with
pictures and pamphlets on showing Long Roads sports teams, which I believe to have lightly spoiled the
effect of the scene. Despite this, when our rough version was shown back to the rest of the group no one
had spotted this minor fault in this scene, which was admittedly to my surprise, I had expected to be
bombarded with criticisms about this scene, but received none, it was quite the opposite, I was being
praised on how good the scene looked and how well the fight played out.
24. The costumes were the same as in key frame 5, since I only had matching black
tops, so again I made sure to only film from the waist up, so that the viewer
couldn’t see the jeans that both characters were wearing. I believe that this
worked out well, as the viewer could only see the top half of the characters. The
actual fight scene itself also drew the attention away from the pictures and
pamphlets in the background and brought it to the two subjects fighting in the
foreground.
To make use of the gym area we did have to book in advance so that the staff
would know which day and the time when we would be filming in the gym. But
due to unforeseen circumstances I had to cancel my original appointment which
was booked for Wednesday the 21st of March at 9.00am till 10:00 am, and re-
book for Thursday 23rd of March from 12:00 till 2:30. This gave my production
team enough time to look closer into this scene, making small adjustments and
final alterations to it, either working on the choreography, editing the
storyboard or gathering contact information from the gym staff, for ease of
communication.
25. This is my final key frame, in which the viewer is shown the final training
stages of Project Romeo. In this screen grab you can see ‘subject 56’ running
past the camera carrying a large pole with a flag atop which is out of shot. This
was filmed towards the end of the day, which explains the darkness in the
image, I ensured that I filmed this scene towards the end of the day, to try to
show the viewer that the training of these subjects runs for days at a time,
eliminating the weaker subjects from the project, leaving the stronger
‘subjects’ to continue on to become elite soldiers.
For the costume of this character I have chosen the black boots and tank top,
along with the army trousers, since this would be the standard dress in
physical exercise for soldiers. I would also like to compare this scene with the
one in soldier, where a group of teenagers are running as a unit, doing physical
exercise; the one at the front is bearing the flag of the unit. Although there
were more people doing training in the film ‘Soldier’ that is what I have based
my scene idea from. I realise that ‘Solider’ is a feature film rather than a
programme, but I believe that this depicts what sort of footage I was going for.
I have included a screen grab and labelled it ‘Figure 3’ of the training scene in
the film ‘Soldier’ to illustrate the point I am trying to make. Whereas my version
of this scene is labelled ‘Figure 4’
28. Section 2
The most enjoyable aspects of this project were the prop collecting and costume creating stages. I
enjoyed this because I have many contacts who were able to supply me with authentic props and
costumes, one notable supplier would be Michael Downes, who allowed me to use his air soft body
armour, which was extremely helpful since most of my costumes were military orientated, either having
army issue trousers, or having a complete uniform, incorporating the use of a flak jacket and Kevlar
helmet.
I also acquired a ghillie suit, which was much fun in the later stages of the filming process. This made
our films quality much higher, since I had really looked in depth and researched what each character
should look like. Also my numerous years of service as an army cadet sergeant, provided me with
detailed background knowledge to help me even further for this project.
Furthermore I believe that my skills as an actor have also enhanced the overall project, I particularly
enjoyed the filming process in which I got the chance to dress up in some of the most intricate of
costumes. On the other hand, I was also creating costumes from scratch, just by finding clothes and
various army belts around my house, I even included the breast and back plate from my storm trooper
costume, to make the commandants outfit seem like it was made in the future.
29. trooper armour to create a totally individual looking costume, one that would
stand out from the others. Another aspect of this project that I thoroughly
enjoyed was the initial design stages of this project, especially the back ground
story’s for the characters and the programme itself, since I could be as creative
as I wanted and not have to be restricted to any given genre, so I decided to be
as unique as possible but still have something to inspire me as I was working
on my project.
The Warhammer 40,000 universe had played a large part in my inspiration for
the making of this programme, since I already collect the miniatures. This gave
me further knowledge into potentially what the characters could look like and
what sort of back stories they could have. Naturally I had taken the elements
that had inspired me from Warhammer 40,000 and combined them with a
programme which I watch called Star wars (the animated series), I took this
programme as my main inspiration since I believe that it portrays what war
would be like in the future, showing that rather than conscripting soldiers and
training them, you could instead clone them from a fully trained soldiers DNA,
then have a large, trained military.
Some of the hardest aspects of this project were, converting the ideas that I
had from paper into a reality, since my imagination is largely overactive, I tend
to have trouble making some of my rather more ambitious ideas more
applicable, this has happened with some of my projects that I have done in my
earlier years of Media Studies, where I have thought of some wild ideas but did
not take into account that I was often going on a very limited budget, or the
30. However due to my over enthusiasm during practical tasks I tend to let my imagination continue to run
wild, which in turn results in somewhat impractical ideas for the project at hand, and often attempting
such impossibilities does waste valuable time and the end result is often disappointing, since it either
looks poorly executed or there is some area in continuity that I have over looked. I am trying to work on
my design stages with much more scrutiny now, as not only do I wish for a project that will look good,
but I also don’t want to waste time with impractical ideas, which will usually use up time, that is normally
a valuable commodity in media.
Some problems that arose during the making of ‘Project Romeo’ was that of organisation, mostly this
fault was down to myself for not being prepared for the early stages of this project, this resulted in much
confusion between myself and our theatrical actors, since communication between us was poor and often
nonexistent, this made me have to waste crucial planning time looking for our actors and having to copy
down the times and dates for when they would be free, and more often than not I would have to go round
calling them and inquiring whether they would be able to do some un scheduled filming, which caused
much dispute between the actors and myself.
In addition, they would also have alternating free periods, in which one actor would be free but the other
would not, so I was left to find a replacement actor to do one scene, this would also result in numerous
continuity errors, since having one person being in one scene then having their replacement for the rest
of their scenes. Another inconvenience was that of bringing replica fire arms into college, which even
from the start I thought would be a bad idea, but for the sake of my grade I was willing to do anything to
get me the best mark possible, even if that involved bringing air soft weapons into college.
31. I did give advanced notice to members of staff ,who did confirm with myself
and my colleagues that it would be acceptable to bring replica fire arms onto
premises, I wasn’t about to bring a small arsenal of weapons into college
without prior permission from senior staff. However a minor misunderstanding
did occur with site staff and our filming crew which was swiftly sorted out by
senior site staff and me, I shall go into further detail about this incident in the
later pages of this evaluation.
Another problem that I had faced was the locations for filming this project,
since doing numerous ‘recces’ round college had been largely fruitless, I had to
go to more effort in finding suitable locations for filming, this resulted in our
acquisition of the gym and medical rooms, my original location choice being
Addenbrookes hospital, of which I couldn’t film in for obvious reasons.
I did most of my location scouting during lessons, which was not the best idea,
since I did not know how busy these areas would get outside of lessons, this
came apparent when I was filming outside of B102, where my filming crew was
being constantly interrupted by other students wishing to pass through the
corridor.
32. My experiences with working in a team are largely varied, on the one had it
does make the general work load easier, which gave me more time to focus on
other tasks, one example of this would be that when my college Tom was
working up script samples for me to evaluate, I was then able to concentrate on
making a shot log up for our filming schedule.
This resulted in our team getting double the work done in half the time. Also
with constant communication this enabled Tom and I to share ideas about the
programme, making changes and alterations to it, it also helped in giving
progress reports to each other, telling the other how far into the current task
they were, and knowing what to move onto after the completion of one task.
I believe that with good communication the team worked well and we made
large amounts of progress throughout the project. It also gave us some
diversity in our characters, so the viewer wouldn’t be seeing the same two
people acting out all the parts in the project.
33. However on the other hand, working in a team was quite stressful, since I was
worried about how their interpretation of my idea would affect my original idea,
and how much it would end up resembling something entirely different to what
I had in mind.
Also relying on others to get work done, especially when I was working outside
of the classroom, I was constantly paranoid that my college Tom would not be
entirely focused if I was to leave the room, and would start procrastinating,
either by listening to music or watching irrelevant videos on YouTube. I did
catch him doing this on numerous occasions, which slightly aggravated me and
weakened my trust in him to work whilst I was out of the classroom.
Another occasion where I found Tom lacking ,was when I had asked him on
multiple occasions to get a voice recording off of Steven Thorne, which would
have only taken a couple of minutes, but he constantly refused to cooperate
saying that “I can’t be asked, I’ll do it tomorrow”, this had hindered my
planning, as I was running out of time to complete this task, and having one of
my team members refuse to do work because he couldn’t be asked to put in
the effort required was not too helpful. When he did finally return with the voice
over I was stunned by how poor it was, and initially thought that the version he
had brought to me was a joke of some kind.
34. He had completely ignored the script that I had given him, making up his own
version on the spot which was of a much poorer quality, and had wasted
valuable time by looking at videos on YouTube which were completely
irrelevant to the task at hand. In addition, he had contributed nothing to the
collection of props or making of costumes, which had not helped, although I
did more than over compensate with the props and costumes, so there was no
real need for him to bring anything in, although a small contribution would
have been greatly appreciated.
So in conclusion, I would say that I had mixed results with working in a team, I
am fully aware that this task would have been much more difficult had I done it
on my own, and I am glad that I got the chance to work with my friend, who in
return for his lack of involvement offered to do the editing of the project.
Which I am grateful for since my editing skills are not as advanced as I would
like them to be, so in preparation for future tasks I shall be working on my
editing skills.
35. Section 3
Some ethical issues that I had faced during the making of this project was,
bringing replica weapons onto college premises, now this was obviously going
to cause some controversy with the site staff at Long Road, so I had made sure
to notify all senior staff, including my tutor, so that they would know exactly
when we would be doing this in order to keep the local college populace calm
and under control, just in case someone did panic at the site of a student
carrying firearms in a college. I knew from the beginning that this was a risky
move, but I was determined to excel in this project.
I had enquired with my tutor to see if I would be allowed to bring replica
weapons into college, to which he requested that I allow for two weeks prior
notice, and that on the day I bring them in I should come straight to B102 and
keep all of our props there rather than hauling them all over the college site, I
also had to carry them in large bags to conceal them, so that they would not be
recognised by anyone as I was bringing them in and only take them out of the
bag when filming.
I was also asked to have a member of my team to wear a high visibility jacket
in order to show official filming was being done, filming in process signs were
also posted around so that students would know what was going on, and that
they should refrain from panicking.
36. Despite the advanced notice, having an e-mail sent round to all senior
staff, high visibility jackets and filming signs in us, there was one minor
incident, which occurred whilst the filming crew was making their way back
to B102, which was that it had turned out that due to poor communications
between senior staff and site staff, had resulted in one of our props being
confiscated.
Although this was a serious matter, due to current events, particularly in
France, the way in which the matter was handled was very professional,
resulting in full cooperation between site staff and filming crew, since the
site staff had not been notified that replica weapons would be on college
site they duly confiscated a replica firearm off of my filming crew. The
matter was then brought to the attention of Steve Whittaker, who had then
explained to the site staff that this was permitted, an apology was issued
to the site staff from the crew and the matter was resolved within hours.
In the future I shall not be bringing in any replica fire arms into college
until I have received confirmation in the form of written and singed
documents stating that all Long Road staff has full knowledge of the fact
that replica fire arms are being brought onto the college site at a
determined date. I also believe that one of the reasons that this process
went more smoothly than anticipated is because there was an
understanding that these were all decommissioned replicas and no harm
was intended, for this I am grateful for all the Long Road staff involved
were understanding that the reason for the presence of replica fire arms in
37. Section 4
The skills that I have learned whilst doing this project are, how do to location ‘recces’,
which gave me a choice in possible filming areas, this became of extreme importance
when it came down to the filming stages of the project, since I had done the location
scouting earlier in the week this had saved valuable time in looking for decent areas in
which to film. I also had to fill out some location sheets, which you can reference in folder
01 under the ‘19/03/12’ section.
Another skill in which I had greatly enhanced was my preoperational aspects of this
project, as you can clearly see form my two folders, I have spent much time researching for
this project, looking at similar ideas and making some design notes. I have also included
some drawings and numerous illustrations for concept art and have put much thought into
the design elements of this project, since science fiction is one of my favoured genres, so I
have let my creative talent get the best of me for this project.
Secondly my knowledge of cameras has expanded even further, since my experiences with
the use of the ‘flip’ cameras has given me an in depth look into how to how other cameras
work, also I had used these cameras in an earlier project, so this had given me an edge
since I already had experience with this type of camera.
38. Section 5
I believe that the quality of the final product is of an acceptable standard, in saying
that I do think that towards the later stages, especially in the last week, everything
did become more rushed as it were and quality seemed to dissolve, in merely
wanting to get the project to a good standard. Some of the areas where I look back
on now and wish that if I had more time, it could have been much better are sound
effects and the music, I know that filming was our priority and that the music and
after effects were not of priority status. I am glad however even though the effects
and music were poor, that they did make it into our final product as originally there
was to be no music to be done and, it was merely a second thought that they had
even been put into the project in the first place.
My expected target audience would be people who are interested in scenes of a
violent nature, since this programme is heavily based around war and conflict. Also
they would have to be around the age of 16 onwards to fully appreciate the action
packed programme, as a younger person might not understand what is going on or
whose parents wouldn’t want their child being exposed to something this violent at
such an age. I also believe that mostly males will enjoy this programme as the
results from my questionnaires clearly show that young males are more likely to
watch a sci-fi film given the opportunity, especially if it is based in the far future,
something that they can relate to with another sci-fi action programme like Star
39. I believe that this is largely suited to my targeted audience, it comprises
most of what you would expect to see in an action programme, which will
hopefully entice a high amount of young males to watch my programme, I
also think that had I have had more time to compete this programme I
could have gone into more detail about the characters and locations, but I
am pleased with the overall quality of the final product.
The strengths of this project I would have to say is the vast amount of
materials I had at my disposal, ranging from props to costumes, this
helped largely in the production of this programme, and gave it a more
professional appeal. Other strengths of this project were that I had stuck
with my original idea throughout the course of this project and kept to
the original idea as much as possible.
On the other hand I believe that the music and effects were to be a
hindrance of the project and not enough time was spent on it, for it to
actually make a large enough impact on the viewer, again had I been
given an extended deadline I could have enhanced the quality of the final
piece with the addition of much better music and effects, although I do
need more practice with the application called ‘Garage band’.
40. In conclusion I believe that the final piece is
still close to my original idea, with a few
alterations in the planning stage, with most
of the main scenes compulsory for the
continuity of the plot and having any other
scenes that had the potential to waste time,
or to take too long to film, removed from
the final product. Such scenes as the
‘Scientists’ scene where a number of
characters in white lab coats were looking
at charts and evaluating records. I believed
that such scenes as these could be
removed from the original idea, but still
have the plot line intact.
