reflection of my AS work

The difficulties we faced during our project 'The Deception' :

In terms of the pre shooting planning of our peice our organisation and experienced was lacking and held us back in our ability to feel at complete ease before going of to do our practical work. We should have spent not neccacerily more time storybording, but used the time we did have to better effect with a greater level of efficancy. We should have been alot clearer in what was happening in each shot so that when we filmed them this process could then run smoothly without as many sporadic shots chosen on the spot. However this did to some degree work in our favour as we were forced to think spontaiously and therefore more creativly. Another area that flawed our organisation was our poor time management, for instance we didn't leave enough time to shcedual reshoots and thus couldn't include a couple of interesting establishing shots that could have made our peice even more insitefully intreeging. In addition to this, in relation to technical issues, we didn't book our filiming equiptment far enough in advance, which meant that we wern't able to use our first choice of equiptment for all our shoots. In relation to the editing of the film, our biggest issue was most probably the difference between our technical ability and knowledge of the editing software. Some group members had a much more advanced experience with the programmes and this meant they had to do more of the heavy lifting than others at the start, though we all helped eachother to get a feel of the programmes like final cut express so after a while the system ran smoothly. Also the lack of computer availbity held us back meaning that not everybody could be editing at once, so on occasion some people had little to do, and at first didn't utalise this spare time well. Though after we relased there was no point in waisting time, and used this time to keep our blogs up to date, which we learned was vitaly important because when blogging posts caught up with us at times if we hadn't kept them up to date it was much more stressfull than it ever needed to be! We also left our music to the last minute which was a big mistake, because we had limited narrative in the film we needed to have a strong soundtrack to support our piece, which meant more pressure than needed towards the end of the editing process.