During pre-production, the student worked efficiently and advised the group. They suggested collaboratively reviewing and adding to tasks. The student helped with writing and planning but could have delegated more. During production, the student became director and organized shooting schedules. They made shooting decisions but also took group votes. More shooting days could have allowed more shots. During post-production, the student edited creatively but ended up controlling too much at first. Later, they sat back and advised as others cut better to words than music. More delegation could have improved the process.

1. SELF EVALUATION
PRE-PRODUCTION
WHAT WENT WELL?
During Pre-production, I was not the director. That change happened partway into
production, thus my role during pre-production was to complete tasks efficiently and
on the deadline. I think I worked very quickly, and did well to advise to group on
particularly difficult tasks. Instead of just working on one task each at the time, I
suggested that all members of the group should look over each piece of work, and
possibly add more to it, leading to every task we did to be a little longer and more
packed with relevant content, due to each member of the group having a different
way of thinking and access to different information and different strengths. I think I
did well in situations in which more literary and articulate writing was needed, as well
as use of cinematography, such as the first and second draft of the script, the writing
of the email to ensure we had the rights to use the song, or the photo storyboard we
created. I was also in charge of receiving the rights to film in all our locations,
specifically the graveyard, though it was Omer who managed to get in contact
eventually. I think the writing of the script, that was mostly influenced by me and
Talia, is emotional and suits the song well
IMPROVEMENTS
I think that while our quality of work was good, I may have looked over certain tasks,
dismissing them as “easier” than the others. For instance, our risks page came out a
lower quality than the rest of our works simply because we assumed it would take
less effort. We put it off and it never got done properly. Perhaps this was partly due
to how I decided it would be better to go over previous works as opposed to starting
new ones, this meant towards the end we were rushed for time, and certain pieces of
work got overlooked. I think improvement I could have made would be putting more
faith in my group, I tended to hawk over them to make sure things were going right,
or overly explaining something to someone. If I had more confidence in their ability’s,
I would have let them work knowing I would have got a good end result, and thus
everyone would have got more work done. I also think I made some serious mistakes

2. during the creation of the storyboard, which I was in charge off. I did not of the facts
we may not have certain props or locations during production, as well as certain
shots being impossible, and it led to a music video that was very different to the
original storyboard in all but script. I also think I made a mistake in not letting Omer
and Filipa have more baring on the main script, as an outside perspective could help
with the eventual problem we had with clarity.
PRODUCTION
WHAT WENT WELL?
I think the production was the point in which I had the most responsibility. I
was put as director as the previous director was having trouble. I felt I did a
very good job in organizing the group, and choosing good times and locations
for everyoneto film, not easy as everyonehas busy schedules, and finding a
severalgood dates to film for each location proved challenging. Insideof the
actual filming I mostly had final say in what angles and shots we should use in
the caseof those on the storyboard notbeing possible(which they often
proved to be). My decisions mostly went well in this regard, and we ended up
with severalinteresting shots throughoutour music video. I was especially
proud of the lighting and framing of the tracking shot early in the video, which
I planned on the fly. Though I did make many decisions, I never overruled my
group, and everyone got to vote on what shots they thought would be best,
severalof the production decisions made, such as costumes or shots and
angles wherethings I originally did not want, but took the common vote of the
group on, leading to more variety and some easier to use and stable shots. One
example of this is the Tea scene, I originally wanted it to be a pure tracking
shot, but after ten unsuccessfultakes dueto the shots difficulty in movement,
Omer suggested we instead make a cut halfway through the shotwhen I sit
down. I really wanted to get the tracking shotright, but we redid it as two
separate shots, and found it to be much easier and provided a greater variety
of shots, leading to a likely higher grading for the scene. I think listing to my
group during production lead to a better music video. Everyonehad a chance
to film and while Omer was in charge of filming, both I and Filipa got many
chances to film through various scenes. (Though Talia did some havetroubles,

3. as she made up a majority of the video, we managed to get her to film every
scene that did not directly include her). As well as this, thanks to our continuity
manager (Omer) and somefantastic makeup and costumes by Filipa, we had
very few continuity errors throughoutthe video, though I can take no credit for
it.
IMPROVEMENTS
I think mostof the problems we had in production stem from a serious time
constrained. If wehad the time, I would have spent an entire day filming one
scene (weactually did this the firstfilming session, to perfect the firstand last
shot). But we only had a few weeks to film, and generally only one day a week
that everyone was available. Each person had to be home by a certain time,
and we only asked for certain locations for a day, meaning we had to film all
the scenes in that location on a single day. While I would like to blame this for
the numerous errors wehad during production, I think my direction was a
large cause of these problems. While very few continuity errors arepresent,
and none are all too noticeable, we had trouble creating
variety of shots. In order to get a long shotright, wespent
most of our time redoing it, and thus had little time for the
mid shot that it should have cut into. So when it came time
to get to post production, wehad to zoom in via the editing
software, meaning a noticeable loss of quality, as shown to
the right. I feel I did not take heed in the advice of doing
multiple shots frommultiple angles, and used to many long
takes, leading to the music videos currentsnail pace. There
was simply a lack of shots, wethought we would be fine with the amount, but
in reality weshould haveshot nearly twice as many, and cut twice as much. I
also felt, while I did well organizing, I should haveasked my group for more
days, as this would have allowed us to shoot more.

4. POST PRODUCTION
WHAT WENT WELL
Editing was really my strong point, I felt like a made a big impact (perhaps too
big, but more of that later) on the editing style of the video and the way we
choseto cut and fade throughoutthe video. I learnt how to usefinal cut
quickly, and helped my friends get better at using it too, teaching them the ins
and outs of the software. Being director I ended up making most of the final
decisions, and resolved severalarguments about how a certain scene should
go. I was especially proud of some of the creative editing ideas that I came up
with to get over the fact someshots last too long. For instance, I cut a
stationary talking shotinto four, and made it so each shotgot progressively
darker to show the passing of time. Turning a boring shotinto an interesting
implication of a long and drawn outargument. Other such creative editing
decisions fromme and the rest of the group resulted in (in my opinion) the
salvaging of an otherwiseproblematic video that might havegot an otherwise
bad grade.
IMRPROVEMENTS
While this became less of a problem in the last few weeks, I definitely ended
up editing too much overall. I do not think I did it due to any particular hubris,
but simply because oftentimes my group would not understand a certain
function on final cut, and I would guide them through it, only to find it’s just
quicker to do it myself, and then 10 minutes later I’m still doing it. The editing
overall went very well, but I found my background in music actually was more
of a hindrancethan a help. As we found out, oftentimes it is preferableto cut
to the words as opposed to the music, but I could not do it, only really being
able to cut to the beat. Luckily the rest of my group had better ears and took
over for that process, leading to my sitting back for the latter half of the editing

5. process and advising instead of controlling. Thus most of the improvements
that could have been made ended up happening anyway