Project evaluation
Our project was a film in which we were given the option to choose different objects to base our films around or use as props in the film. The objects that we decided to choose were: a small octopus toy figure, frog toy figure, bath duck, small crown and a sand castle. Using all the objects as inspiration we firstly decided to have the story about the toys being collectables and people fighting for them but as we developed our ideas we concluded that our story should only involve the toy figures. Eventually we came up with an idea. It was about the two figures (duck and octopus) going on an adventure/journey to the castle that belongs to the frog on there way there they come across a hole that they have to jump across in order to get to the castle and on of the characters (the duck) attempts to jump across and falls to its death, the octopus however survives the jump and travels to the castle, fights the frog and kills it and becomes the king of the castle.
We decided to film this on grass with a little hill or slant so that the castle is higher than the characters to show dominance. Then while filming we came across a hole in the grass and I decided to use this to our advantage by making the characters have to jump over the hole in order to get to the castle and we also had one of the characters die in the proces of jumping over the hole to add a dramatic effect. The people in our group gave good suggestions for the story, edited the video, helped set the stuff up for the video, found a place to film and found the sound for the video. However my role was to give story suggestions, film (which i didnt do a good job of) and help set up the stufffor the set. Our group worked well but couldve been better. The setup of the set and the storyline and structure went particularly well but there were problems we came across such as the objects being hard to improvise with, the camera being glitchy, not being able to do stop motion and not having enough time time to perfect it we overcome these problems by mking the story different so we dont have to use stop motion and cutting the glitchy parts of the video out using premiere pro.
In the editing part of this project we didnt experiment too much. We only used cuts transitions and changed the audio but overall our group worked collectively and well during this stage of the project. The things I found especially hard were the filming, coming up with the ideas and giving suggestions while the other group members were editing. However I found making the story structure, setting up and improvising easier. 3 things I would do differently next time if i was given the chance to do it again is choose different objects, help with the editing part more and have more sturdy filming. Overall I think it is an unsuccessful project and I am neither happy or disappointed with the work but I believe we couldve done way better.
evans media 