Evaluation

My final piece is titled “The lonely ghost”, it is a sketch about a ghost who has chosen to haunt a graveyard and questions why he did this as there is nobody there to scare. I am reasonably pleased with my final product, although I feel that it does indeed have a lot of room for improvement. I believe that I handled the pre-production quite well, and was reasonably organised when it came down to it. I think that my biggest weakness was when it came to down to filming for the project, as it wasn’t at a particularly good time, seeing as it was dark, the image and the overall quality of the filming was not a good as originally intended. However, it certain parts I feel that it does add to the atmosphere. I couldn’t shoot other scenes like I originally wanted to as it proved very difficult to find the correct people, I needed to redo the sound as the one caught on camera had a lot of unintentional noise, such as the tripod creaking, and in some points the speech was particularly quiet. The script ended up being improvised as both the actor and me founded that a lot easier to do than sticking to a script. During editing, a lot of things went wrong, I had trouble importing the film onto the computer and when I finally began editing, I noticed a lot of problems with the footage, however I chose to stick with it and salvage it as much as I could. For my second session of editing I had discovered that my work had not been saved properly to the computer, so I had to start again. I wished to implement original forms of editing into my piece, for example, I wanted to show that the ghost was disappearing and appearing again by filming scenes of the actor and then filming the shot they were in, without them in it, and then editing them together and fading them in to create that illusion. I tried doing as many shots as possible, but I forgot to do shots from the side and back like I wanted to do to start with. Although originally intending to a variety of short sketches, I did an extended one of my favourite idea. I could have improved my overall product by starting filming earlier and being more organised in that process, I could have used a larger variety of shots and implemented all of my ideas into my piece. The parts of my piece that I am most pleased with is my initial idea, the effects I used and my storyline remained intact and didn’t have to be altered concerning time. The things of my piece that I am most disappointed with is the quality of the final film, my end organisation of everything and obviously, having to restart editing. I would say I could have put more effort into it, but all in all, I think my idea has been illustrated well.