The group initially developed an idea for a time travel film but faced time and budget constraints. They simplified the idea to focus on a woman, Sarah, remembering the family home she created with her late husband, Kyle. They aimed to portray emotions of sorrow, grief, and the couple's love for each other and the house. However, challenges included communication issues, continuity problems due to limited reshoots, and rushed filming within three hours.

1. The Best Days
Andrew Crompton, Laura Briscoe, Charlotte
French, Nick Brett, Brooke Cattell, Molly Bye

2. Critical Reflection
We initially spent a lot of time developing a different idea involving Time Traveling,
creating many revisions of the script. However due to time constraints, location
scouting and budget we decided that this project would be too difficult for us to
achieve a product we were proud of. This lead to us disregarding this idea and
replacing it with a simplified idea which still included the emotional layers of the
previous idea. We then developed these by adding an element of sorrow and grief as
we decided to portray the film as a memory from Sarah after the loss of her husband
Kyle.
Our initial intentions regarding this project was to create a film about a man travelling
back in time to reconcile with his wife after taking her for granted when she was still
with him. However due to complications our final realisation of the film became about
a woman remembering the family home she and her husband created out of the
ruins of an old film studio, after the husbands death.
We decided to keep the names of the characters from the original script as a
reference to this but changed the personalities of the characters around so that
instead of Kyle being cold, sarcastic and seemingly heartless, we made him a lot
more impulsive and also less smart to make him more likeable and the story of him
buying the house make sense.

3. Strengths
We worked co-operatively to power through certain issues encountered with sound
recording whilst in the workstation.
Most members of the group put in considerable time and effort for the project
working on their roles and helping out other members.
Andrew did a great job as director giving members of the crew and the actors
directions to fit with his creative vision for the project. He was not scared to ask for a
second take and give people instructions on how to improve.
Charlotte did an amazing job with the edit. She worked well with the shots we
managed to acquire and working around the issues with lighting and continuity all in
the time constraints.
Laura was a great producer! Constantly available to provide help and advice, kept
moral up by providing food and kept production moving along smoothly.

4. Weaknesses
We had a few communication issues whilst working in the workstation regarding
some of the shot framing and set up. Some of the shots are in soft focus and include
equipment and personal possessions in the back.
Continuity was a difficulty in trying to keep due to working around several takes but
we pushed through.
Lighting throughout the film changes breaking continuity and leading to problems
with colour correction during the edit.
Due to personal schedules and limited time all the filming and production had to be
completed in just a 3 hour period which became very stressful and lead to us rushing
to do the best we could, but this rush occasionally shows.
With some personal issues with certain members of the group, a lot of the post-
production was shifted around roles with a large portion of it left to others

5. Emotional Relationships
One of the emotional relationships explored in the film is love. This includes the two
characters love for each other but also Kyle’s love for the house they will create
together. Later on we also look back on Sarah’s new found love for the house they
managed to create after she’s lost her husband.
Grief and loss are other emotions explored during the film. We look into these two
emotions briefly during the opening and final scene when the audience realises that
it is a memory of the beginning of Sarah’s journey with Kyle to create their family
home. We notice that Sarah has lost Kyle and is grieving over her loss.
Another of the emotional relationships explored throughout is Kyle’s passion about
the new project he and his wife are about to start. He is passionate about the film
studio with many ideas for the house. All he really wants is for Sarah to feel the same
way he does.
Trust is the last emotion we covered in the film. Here we saw Sarah’s journey from
not trusting Kyle in the beginning and thinking it was a stupid idea to her then having
trust in him as she agrees to stay one night. From this the two of them agree to take
on the project and create a beautiful family home.

6. Roles
Andrew Crompton – Director
Laura Briscoe – Producer
Nick Brett – Sound Recorder
Charlotte French – Editor
Molly Bye – Cinematographer
Brooke Cattell – Sound Design

7. Inspirations
Our main inspiration for this film was the 2010
short film ‘Sign Language’ by Oscar Sharp.
-This film had a nice, simple premise and a light
hearted comedic tone that we tried to bring to our
film, especially the scene where they are looking
round.
-The cinematography was also quite dynamic with
uses of pans and shifting focus which we used to
inspire how we would film it.

8. Evaluation
If we were able to do this project over again, we
would definitely do a multi-camera set up, use the
original idea of the time travelling scientist, hire out
better locations to use in production and film over
several days instead of just a couple of hours.