Diabetes UK briefed the filmmakers to create a short film educating young people about diabetes. Their original idea was to recreate an advert showing a motorcyclist crashing and explaining his death from low blood sugar. However, their actor was unavailable, so they changed their plan. Filming went more smoothly due to their ability to relate to the target audience, but planning was hindered by the change in plan and missing actor. Editing was their main strength, with positive feedback on fluid transitions and visual effects showing symptoms, but they could have added sound/music to enhance the opening scene.

1. Evaluation of Diabetes
UK film

2. Brief
The brief from diabetes UK was that we were to make a 3 minute or shorter
film with the intention of educating people on diabetes. Our film didn’t exactly
educate but it showed the severity of diabetes and what can happen if people
with diabetes don’t take care of themselves. The target audience was young
people in secondary and college, this made filming easier because we could
relate to the audience making the message very easy to put across.

3. Original idea
Our original idea was to recreate the THINK advert in which a motorcyclist
crashes and talks you through his dying. Our plan was to have an actor walking
through college and then to fall and have a hypo. We were then going to zoom
in their face and back out to show them standing next to their own body
explaining what had happened and how to prevent it. But we eventually
changed the plan due to our actor not being present on the day of filming.

4. Planning
Our planning didn’t really help due to the absence of the actor as well as our
change of plan during the production. I feel that if we had stuck to the plan
and had our actor then our film and the production of the film would have
gone a lot smoother. I also believe that if we had all crew present then the call
sheets would have been useful but when the actor wasn’t there, the call sheets
were quite pointless.

5. Filming
Our main strengths in filming were the movement and framing, where we had a
point of view shot that showed movement quite well as well as when we
framed Elly behind Jermaine while he was on the floor. We did this deliberately
to show her reaction to him being on the floor. Our weaknesses were mainly
teamwork where we couldn’t decide as a group what to do or how to do it. But
we overcame that by leaving it up to Eugene.

6. Editing
I feel that the editing was our main strength overall as our feedback was mainly
positive comments on how good the editing was. For example the fluidity of
Jermaine walking through the door and the effects put on Jermaine as he starts
to feel ill. But I feel that we could have added more sound or even a soundtrack
to give more effect and make the walking into college a bit easier to watch.