Evaluating Foundation Production Continued

• I have learnt many things from my production last year, firstly I have learnt that research into your area is critical, last year I did lots of research but I feel now that my research will be much more detailed and therefore better. This year I plan on watching lots of music videos and writing analysis for them. 
• Designing storyboards took lots of time last year and I think that this year we will start much earlier. Last year I realized that your storyboard changes as you do more and more research, and people get more ideas. So I think that this year we should draw shots on to post-it notes so we can be flexible if we need to alter it. 
• Again when it comes to planning the shoot lots of time is essential, last year I learnt that your schedule might have to change due to weather, or illness. I think that being prepared for that is important. Costume was something that I felt could have been better organized in our production.
• I want to spend more time thinking about that especially as in music videos costume can be essential for the creation and identity of the artist. I would also like to spend a lot of time on organizing the mis en scene, as this can make the music video look a lot more professional. 
• Some of the ideas I have include shooting outside, lighting is very important for clarity and editing later, so would have to find a way to have lights outside if we wanted to film outside.
•  I ve learnt there is a lot of class work, so this year I will be more prepared for that and be able to keep on top of it better, blogging and homework I now have a better idea on, and will hopefully be doing more multimedia things on my blog throughout the course so I can hopefully achieve the A grade I want. 
• Last year my group and I had a few issues with filming, I found that the workload could easily become less managed and that some people would have more workload than others, my group this year will have a schedule hopefully, with what needs to be done and when people can do it. There was also a lot of issues last year with hardware and uploading, last year we had the macs stolen and found that a lot of our footage got corrupted or went missing as we were editing, we have learnt what not to do this time, and will definitely be keeping spare copies of whatever we do.

• Last year I realized that a lot of the evaluation questions could have been prepared along the way, this is something I will be trying to do this year, so the workload towards the end of year is as manageable, this extra time will also hopefully mean my work quality will be a lot better. This year I also have experience with  the different media that will be required for my evaluation, I still hope to find and use new ones though.

Evaluation of last years work.

1. We had to film 3 times, due to missing match on actions, lighting and other continuity issues. We also had issues with the cast not being available when they thought they would be, which meant that we had to reschedule. We had to reedit a number of times due to lost footage and a burglary at school. Another issue was the music, because nothing we found worked, the syncing of the titles also took a lot of time to get right.

2. The flashbacks were really effective and really brought our piece together, despite the problems are sequence was effective as an opening to a horror film and we worked together well as a group. 

3. We should have looked at our footage when we were filming and looked at our storyboard more so it was easier when we came to edit, we also feel we could have done more with the costume, with planning more in advance. We should have allowed time for errors, and done a more thorough rough cut. 

4. I would plan more and follow it better than we did last time, as we know now what worked effectively.

5. I would also have a time schedule for all of the production and split up the group tasks more as we didn't do this last time 

Evaluating Foundation Production

1. The story board wasn't very detailed so when we came to do the filming and editing for the music video promo is was quite hard.
2. Despite this the editing worked quite well, for example the split screens and the colourisation were effective.
3. We should have matched the editing to the beat more, so that the music fit better with the video, we also should of had brighter clothes, also different more colorful locations would have worked better and settings that matched the video.
4. Next time we will do more planning in storyboards, and also in costume, setting and the codes and conventions of other music videos so that's ours fit, I would also do more editing practice so we can use different techniques.