Our Film

After many weeks of hard work, our film is finally finished. Below is a link to view it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZh-Fug8c2o

Feedback

The first showing of our film was done at school where it was shown to the other media studies students. At this premiere event all of the films from the other groups were shown as well which was useful because it allowed us to make a comparison between our work, ideas and technical abilities and those of the other groups. We also received feedback from the other students. Some of the main points that were raised were: the male cast members were louder than the female cast members (this is very noticeable, particularly in the doorstep scene), the ending seemed rushed, there was a lack of creative camera angles and the camera quality was not quite up to standard. The audio and visual quality is simply due to a lack of decent equipment, it could be improved by the use of a dedicated microphone (rather than the built in microphone on the camera) and a better quality camera. The ending may have appeared rushed because unfortunately we did have to skip a chunk of the filming (which would've involved a final short scene showing Bonnie escaping in a car with the money) in order to finish the project in time, although admittedly we probably could have extended the fighting in the final scene to make the scene feel more robust. We encountered many problems with the camera and possibly the biggest problem was the mobility of it: we wanted to do the shots on a tripod to maintain a quality look but in order to do this we had to sacrifice some creativity because it simply wasn't possible to get some of the shots we wanted whilst still keeping up a professional standard of image quality.