Evaluation of short task

My Objective: To Become More Skilled With A Camera

What Went well?

What went well during this task was the group dynamic between Me, Halle and Thelma,
I thought that as a group we could discuss our ideas and put them forward without having anyones thoughts being over looked because we are all quite motivated we all had a say in what we did. For example when i was setting up the Camera and the tripod they were still involving me in the storyboarding and asking me what i thought, which i thought was important because if they had carried on without letting me know i wouldnt really know how to achieve the shots with the camera until it had to be shot.

what you need to improve?

as a group we need to become more broad minded for example we chose locations for our short task that werent far away but also so did the rest of the class so we had three groups trying to film different scenes at the same time in the same place. A way we could have improved was to as soon as we saw there were another 2 groups trying to film we should have changed location but at the time we thought that changing location would take us more time than waiting which isn't true because we spent over half of our shooting time waiting for the other groups or having to retake our shots because the other groups were in the frame and so on. so i would improve by choosing a better location in future.

Personal Objectives?

My Personal objectives were to become more skilled with the camera and also to have more experience working in a group dynamic because i think these are valuable skills that i will need to do well in media, i think i have become more experienced with the camera because it became kind of a second nature to pan and to move also to put up the tripod came quite easy to me and working as a team went well because we all had a chance to feedback on each other's ideas.

What would you do differently?

If i had to do this task again i would change the location and also i would have not panicked so much because when time started to pass i started to get frustrated by how behind we were but i never let my team mates know because then they might panic and then no work would have been done.

Key Skill's used?

Key skill's i used was the skills i have learnt about using the camera and also listening and communication skills with my group which is important so we all know what we are doing.

Research

Research

Independent cinema is when writers create and produce a film by themselves with little or no expense.
This has become more popular because of the amount of availability of recording equipment for example Digital camera’s and editing software, because everyone has or knows someone who has a digital camera and every computer comes with a form of editing software already uploaded e.g. Windows movie maker.

Many devices include digital cameras built into them. For example, mobile phones, PDAs, laptops and Blackberries often contain a digital camera integrated in them, also digital camcorders. In 2003 camera phones outsold digital cameras, and in 2006 they outsold all film-based cameras and digital cameras combined. Integrated cameras tend to be at the end of the scale of digital cameras in technical specifications, such as resolution, optical quality, and ability to use accessories. With rapid development, however, the gap between mainstream compact digital cameras and camera phones is decreasing, and high-end camera phones are competitive with low-end stand-alone digital cameras.

The independent film scene developed in the 90’s and 2000s has been created due to a range of factors, including the development of affordable digital cameras that rival standard filming cameras.

The cost of professional film equipment and stock was a problem for independent filmmakers who wanted to make their own films. The cost of 35 mm film is steadily rising: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety. Studio-quality filming typically required expensive lighting and post-production facilities.
But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-definition digital video in the early 1990s, have since lowered the technology barrier to movie production considerably. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer.

Technologies such as DVD, FireWire connections and professional-level non-linear editing system software make movie making relatively inexpensive.
Director Francis Ford Coppola, long an advocate of new technologies like non-linear editing and digital cameras, said in 2007 "cinema is escaping being controlled by the financier, and that's a wonderful thing. You don't have to go hat-in-hand to some film distributor and say, 'Please will you let me make a movie?'”

Another Good thing that has come from the rise of independent films is that they can get feedback from the public if they post their film on a website e.g. Myspace, Youtube and also they have the chance to re-shoot a scene without any major costs being incurred.

I believe that the future of film depends on independent films and that it is good that people have the opportunity to make a film without having to hand control over to a major production team and make it the way they want.