In this project I found that it has been a lot of ups and downs with problems after problems but I have over come them all with the help of supportive people close to me. I was organised to begin with but with the transition from Digital News to Fiction it was a bit confusing and I was not as prepared as I should have been, as I should have been recording quicker than was planned.
I had my idea quite quickly and the script was quite clear, everything was set up to film 3 weeks before hand-in I had the locations I had the adverts out their for actors and composers.
Everything was set but no one applied for my main character which is a 45 year old man, this meant that with 2 weeks to go I had no one to appear without their face being seen in my film.
I then I spoke to my dad and he had an idea to ask my uncle if he would help out and I could then move my shoot home to Essex, I never thought about using my Uncle so I phoned him and because he doesn't have a job he was willing to help out, but as a back up my dads friend could have done it. So I then went home and me and my mum looked for a new church location for me to film at and contact them, I was lucky as my mum suggested St. Margaret's church which had a field leading up to it and I knew it had a graveyard as I used to walk past it everyday to school.
I got in contact with them and we sorted a date, but then my mum came up with an idea that if you don't see the characters face then why not use my brother as I could put my dads coat on him and just cut his head out as he has bright ginger hair.
I also asks my mums friends son who is 10 to helps out as the little boy in the graveyard and he really wanted to star in his first film which was great, he actually did very well and looked sad even though he did not cry, he even helped me out on the shoot being my runner when switching between the tripod and the shoulder rig.
Overall that day went well except that the reverent for the church kept asking us how long we was going to be, so we felt rushed and so we did all the inside of the church first, she also kept watching us which was a little of putting but it all got done and I like the video.
I haven't actually done much to the video with effects and fancy writing as I wanted a natural emotional video with sound so I editing it roughly and sent it to the composer, he then 2 days before hand-in says he won't finish in time leaving me with a edited video that is silent, now I was hoping that the music he created was going to make the video flow as it was to be made to fit the film but I then had a day to find royalty free music online, luckily I managed it and the music wasn't too bad I just wish I would have got more than one composer to make a piece and I would have back ups and some to chose from.
Now that my video is finished it is not what I actually had in my mind when I came up with the idea and the script as I completely got rid of the town scene and a lot of the POV and yet the video is nearly 5 minutes, but I am happy with the result but I know that I could have done better with the music, playing around with the poem on the screen more and even though I didn't rush towards the end I feel I should have done my work quicker leaving time for mistakes.
I am also proud that I was the one to create the intro as I have never done something like that before and I didn't spend to long on it and with a little help form Lex everyone liked and agreed on it, my second attempt, if I had more time I would have played with it more making some more movement on screen.
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