My assignment was a documentary and the topic of interest was Skateboarding, i chosed this because it is a very interesting topic and i felt that this would be successful due to the knowledge the group has of skateboarding and its history, also we had skateboarders in our group to help us with the actual footage for our documentary.
The first day of filming, we film for 45 minutes getting a lot of footage for our intro and just general stock footage clips. we decded to film in the local park because that was were the skateboarder was comfortable with filming and also, we didn't have to travel far so it was easy for everybody and simple to get the footage and easy to carry the equipment, also the park where we filmed was quiet and large so a lot of the footage is quiet and not interrupted, this made the intro and the stock footage clips look even better because it was just us and nobody else. I think that a lot of the documentary is successful, such as the background music that we used, the interview we did and the stock footage we found i also think the clips we filmed of the skaters, when it all merged together it looked really good and professional.
We found difficulties due to some people not being in to film or work, so the people who were in had to do more work than what was expected, we had to adapt to the allotted amount of work given to us, this was a problem and dificult because we couldn't film some days, i feel this could have been done difently with some people taking more responsebility. Due to this, we had to give job roles to differently people and make it work, we had difficulties during filming when some of our crew were not in or available we had to ask someone to help us, or make do with what we had, which was very tricky when trying to film in some locations.
I feel our film making process came along rather well, soon as we got the brief we knew what we had to film, weere to film and how to do it. I feel this is what made our documentary succesful due to everybody knowing what they were doing. When everybody was in to film I feel we worked really well as a crew and a team helping and coordinating each other when filming or doing certain jobs. I feel this was a very successful part of the making of our documentary. Although I feel it was sucessful I think that The Director should have given job roles out and do a bit more to try and help us understand what we will be doing and take control, because of this some of the crew were doing 2-3 different job roles at a time including Editing, filming and hiring equipment which seems very unfair on certain crew members. I feel this could have been avoided by the director taking charge of his crew instead of letting someone else do it and having a bit of confidence with his team.
Our performince on set and when filming was ok, sometimes we would be very prepared to film and some days not as much and I feel by not always being propared it cost us a lot of time when filming which could have been put into filming better scenes or into the editing phase, what I would have done differently on the days when we wasn't as prepared I would have took charge of the crew and coordinated them a little bit better, by doing this I feel we would have finished filming faster and got onto editing quicker. During our next performance during film making I would like to change things after last time by taking control of situations a lot more and helping the team during there individual roles.
During filming, our team didn't agree on whether to keep the interview in the documentary although it speaks about Skateboarding and other topics, it's very tonge and cheek after I explained this would be good for the interview and the documentary they understood my reasoning and let me edit it in. This was a prime example of when our team and listeing skills came into play and were very good at discussing situations like this and come to a logical conclusion.
During filming I felt that when crew members weren't helping the team or doing any certain job, they could have asked what they could've done instead of standing there and watching us, I felt this was a flaw in our teamwork and next asignment I film on I will try my best to eliminate this from our working environment.
This has been my analysis of how i worked on set, I have wrote about things that went well during filming and pre/post production and i have also wrote about flaws when we was filming, and how i could improve them. I have also been very critical in this analysis which i feel is very good and very professional.
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