Conclusion

I have met most of my brief for my although me and my group had to make some changes. We did create a new fiction film with the opening titles and the duration was just over 2 minutes. We came up with a original script and storyboard and all the video and audio material was originally produced by us.

The changes are that we worked in a group of three rather than four as one of the group members (Reyhan) left Haringey Sixth Form to study somewhere else, during the time we were filming. So we had to cut her out as she was one of the characters in our film and was not willing to be part of it no more. We ended up changing a storyboard and script as we changed our initial idea which was that Oraldo buys drugs from Dahir and is unable to pay him back, therefore Oraldo's girlfriend (Reyhan) gets kidnapped.

We changed it to a story about two best friends who get into a life of crime, drugs and dirty money. Eventually Dahir's greed betrays his friendship with Oraldo. Oraldo borrows money of Dahir but wen he doesn't pay him back, Dahir tricks him into coming with him to his house and shoots his own best friend.

The responses from our peers were quite positive as they liked the story and editing of most parts of the film. In the real world I think our film would be less successful as our peers understand how much work and time went into the making of the film and therefore are more symphatetic towards our work. I think the real world would less understanding and like the story and some of the scenes, but see a lot of mistakes within the scenes, filming and characters.

It could be argued that our film was not the best of all films, but I think the story was interesting. It shows friendship, betrayal, crime, money and everyday life. These themes are all very relate able to people and this may draw them in as an audience. My thing about the film is the "voice over", we wrote down a little script and Dahir went into the studio and it got recorded, then we learned how to put that into our film using final cut. There were some troubles with the editing as it did not have as much continuity, one scene cuts to another and this may be a bit confusing to the audience. We also did not leave enough time to edit as we filmed once and we had to film a lot of the scenes again. If I could change something I would definitely change the fact that we did not leave enough time for the editing because if we did we could have filmed anything that did not have continuity over.

Looking back from the beginning of the school year up untill now, I myself can realise how much I have learned during all my media classes. I analyse film in my head whilst watching without realising im doing it. I am now fully able to work a camera on my own without any directions as I did all the filming for our production. I also did most of the editing, but had both of my group members present so that I did not do anything they did not want me to. When editing I would change things and then ask my group members what they thought and we would then all together talk about what did not make sense and what we should do to change this. I brought ideas and when I went home I would go and think about how to do certain scence's or how to change other things within the film. My abilities to make a film and edit it are of average level, as I have obviously not learned everything there is to learn, but I am satisfied with the amount I know now and the overall effort I have put into the group work.