Evaluation on the film

In video this term we got set a task to create a short film in which is 3 to 5 minutes long and we had to be in groups of 4 or less. I got into a group with Olivia,Shannon and Jade and then we managed to split the work up equally so no one is left doing all the work. After that we came up with our ideas for our video we came up with the idea of doing a horror film. Then we researched on what is in a horror film and we reminded ourselves of the codes and conventions of the horror genre. After we done that we talked to one another and came up with the storyline. Our horror film was going to be about a girl called Raven which gets bullied and kills herself and then goes back to haunt the bully in which is the cause of her death . In the first scene we are going to do how raven dies then in the second scene we are going to do a flashback on why she died, the third scene is going to be Raven haunting the bully and the last scene is going to of the death of the bully which raven tells the bully to do.
After we came up with the idea and the scene breakdown Jade designed a storyboard in which has what happens in each scene but is a picture instead of words.
Then I write the script on celtx to help me write it more professional and make it look like a real script. When we had the script done we started to film, we had to book the camera out because neither of us had a good quality camera to film.
The first scene we filmed was the scene where Raven kills herself we managed to get fake blood to make it look more realistic and more effective, we filmed that scene in the college toilets but was not  the best idea because everyone was look at us. The second scene we filmed was the bulling scene of raven getting bullied. In the script their is only one bully but we filmed it with two bullies, we done various bully scenes. Next we filmed where raven is a ghost and haunts her bully, we done this in one lesson because we didn't want to do the make up again, and we done various scenes of that to. The last scene we filmed is of the bully dying. After we finished filming we edited the film and put all the scenes in order and added scary music to make it more effective and more scary.

We stuck to the script in some parts of the film but other we added in so it would last longer and we did not have time to edit the script but if you look at script to a movie it is not always exactly to the script and some bits do get added in and altered.

What went well is that we managed to film our film in time and we managed to make its look as effective as we can. What went wrong is that it was very hard to get a dark lighting in the college and the horror genre is very dark and gloomy. Next time I will not choose the horror genre because it really hard to film in the time we had and I would choose the documentary because it is easy to film because it don't need loads of props and it is very easy to meet the codes and conventions of that genre.