The Meeting

Task
In a lesson before the summer holidays, Mr Rosen asked us to create a 1 minute film called "The Meeting." To complete this task he gave us:
a small brief (intentionally so that we could create our own story and to get us used to filming)
a camera
a tripod
and the use of iMovie.
I was in a group with Jack, Joey and Dan and in filming we tried to use techniques that we had learnt in previous lessons such as length of shots, shot angle and shot type but as this was our first time properly filming we didn't do it very well. This was done intentionally by Mr Rosen though as later he told us that he was 'setting us up to fail.'
Our story was two old friends met up after not seeing each other for ages, one who was a confident, 'cool popular' kid while the other was very shy and a bit of a loser.

Evaluation
At the end of the lesson we viewed each others short films all with the same name. Some were quite good using some technques effectively however a couple were quite boring and clearly no thought had been put into them about different filming techniques for example length of shot. This taught me that when creating a short film like this, there are a few key techniques that need to be applied.

1. Don't let a shot run on for too long as watching the same shot for a minute is very boring because it makes everything feel very slow, it doesn't provide any atmosphere or mood

2.Always follow the editing rules.

3.Make the plot of what you are filming clear and don't go off on a tangent so the audience can folllow it and not get confused.