Single camera production evaluation

Single camera production evaluation

Taking a script
We chose to do the screenplay Silenced, because it was the best story out of all of ours and the most doable. Making a screen translation of the screenplay written by Sav Houston and adapted by me was actually a lot more challenging than expected. For starters, we had to add additional scenes to make the story make more sense. We also had to film mostly in the same location frequently which wasn't always available and because the owners of that house were moving, we had to be careful what was caught on camera as it might not be there again.

Shooting Manually with a DSLR
Filming with the DSLR was a challenge for some of us as we found getting all the settings right hard, but others who are familiar with camera's were a lot better and after we all had the grip of it, we managed to get every shot in every scene to focus.

Coverage
We filmed each scene multiple times with multiple angles to give us plenty of coverage ad we managed to do this with ease.

Own Sequence - Management
I tried to make my scene a little more shaky as it was the big shooting scene, which needed to be tense, but this didn't seem to be liked by everyone.

Finished Product:

Mise-en-scene
As far as mise-en-scene goes, we managed to keep everything authentic and didn't let any slips like, camera bags or tripods get into shot.
Camera
The camera sometimes should have been steady instead of shaky and because of this we might decide to re-shoot some select moments.
Editing
The editing wasn't actually that bad and came together very nicely, which was helped in no small part to our coverage.
Sound
The sound is sometimes too loud and sometimes too quiet, which makes it feel uneven but as far as sound effects goes, we actually did well, and the soundtracks were chosen very well.

Conclusion
The making of the video I think went mostly well, there was little arguments between team members and we all had the same idea of how we wanted the video to look, yet each scene has it's directors fingerprint on it. We all could have worked a little harder though sometimes as it sometimes too a long time to get everyone to start working and there was a little too much mucking around. Personally I learnt that planning out the shots and discussing the story a lot more thoroughly would have help everyone understand it better and would also help see forthcoming problems with the screenplay when filming.

Feedback
Most people seemed to find the shake of the camera bad and there where a couple of shots that weren't one hundred percent in focus, and a lot of people have said that there was too much swearing which ultimately was my fault. Another frequent offender was the sound levels that where uneven. Most of the other comments were positive, this includes the editing, a lot of the camera shots and positioning and the acting as well.