T-13 FILM EXTRACT: Director - Evaluation - The Lock Up

T-13 FILM EXTRACT: Director - Evaluation - The Lock Up - Dan Dawson

Thursday 26 February 2009

Director - Evaluation - The Lock Up - Dan Dawson

I am Dan Dawson and this is my evaluation on our group 12T-13's film sequence of our post-apocalyptic Britain containing a lot of tension and suspense. Our two minute clip from the film show's our hero in a small dark room which reflects this feelings from his past which he has to live with for the rest of his life.

Our group came up with a few idea's which we decided were too hard to make a part of the film, we ended up agreeing on a zombie genre about Britain which we thought would be easier if we didn't show the zombies but we created the idea that they were on the other side of the door.
The genre we worked on was horror because it was based on an infected race destroying Britain and its population, it influenced us too find a convincing location and setting for the best possibility in our filming.

As director I feel I have effected the narrative by discussing thought's with the other people in my group, such as suggesting the location of filming and giving Alex idea's whilst he wrote up overall narrative, I think we came up with a good film idea and we worked well together and created a good film sequence.

As a group we all sat round the table and talked about what are overall idea and character details such as Alex wearing a tank top and a bandage to create the lone hero image which worked well with the sequence as one of the last survivors in Britain.
Once we came up with the idea of our film sequence and after we made the shot list we didn't change anything apart from getting different angle shot's of the shot lists too add more dimention to our film showing the whole 3-D view of the entire room.

As director im not sure how the audience would respond to my micro aspect apart from them complimenting all the other micro aspect's which i helped in the process of making and editing the film sequence.
The feedback i received was on Mise-en-scene which said "The empty room had a good effect, made you focus on the raido," and "Typical dress of a hero - tank top and bandagae added to this effect." On Mise-en-scene we got no negative feedback but one thing i would of improved on was possibly moving the fan which was in the camera shot for roughly two seconds which we didn't move.

I think as me and Richard both take film and media we were able too bring that little bit more out of our final piece which has helped but Alex and Will did a lot of work too make it the best it could possibly be.

I directed pretty well I feel, I made sure we finished our filming in one shoot because of the distance some group members had too travel and so Matthew James didn't have too rent us out another room at a later date.
I was told I was taking control of the work too much but thats what directors have to do making sure everyone is happy and the filming and editing is the best it can be which is what happened in the end so they shuddn't be complaining.

At the end of all of this I am happy how the film sequence has come out and i wouldn't chance anything major in it only little details which dont really matter at the end of the day because we weren't skilled enough too for example blend Will's voice over in with the back ground sound too well or get the volume of it just write but I think it is really good and would enjoy watching it if i would see it.

Dan Dawson

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posted by AS Film Studies Students @ 01:44

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