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Evaluation

Evaluation 

What was successful:

Group skills

I think that me and Gaby worked very well together, we both said our ideas and opinions and managed to use all of them in our film. We both had our weaknesses when it came to this task as Gaby was good at filming so filmed most of our film and then i was good at planning and directing, so this meant that our weaknesses came together to create one big strength, and both our individual strength may have been another weakness, which was why we worked well as a team. We never argued about anything and overall I think we worked well as a team.

Planning

Me and Gaby made sure that we new exactly what we were going to do before we even started to think about filming. We made sure we knew what each scene and clip was going to be, what would happen in it and how long the clip lasted for. We then knew were would be a good place to film and what the character should look like and act (personality). We then gathered and ask two people to be our actors that looked for the part.
We used story-boards to show the shot of each clip  and to explain about the soundtrack, camera movement and dialogue and the timing of each shot.
Maybe next time we should follow our story boards more carefully as we didn't this time.

Filming Skills 

I think we could of done better when it comes to filming, as most of our film was tracking which means we couldn't of used the tripod, so our film ended up very shaky. However for our first time using a camera, we wasn't so bad and now understand what do do and not what to to when filming again. A example of were our camera skills wasn't the best, was when we filmed Harry's feet walking down the stars, as the camera kept cutting his feet out of the shot etc. Also next time I think we should use the tri-pod more, as we didn't use it much this time; which might mean when planning our film design it to what equipment with have in the school.

Editing Skills 

I think I could personally improve on my editing skills, which i'm hoping i'll do during the year. Mine and Gaby's film does look okay and doesn't have major jumps in it and is able to run smoothly and looks like a continues film. There is no silly mistakes and the shots are in the right order, and the more times we edit, hopefully the better we become.

Sound

At first we wasn't going to use any sound or music as we thought it will create more tension but when it came to looking at our film there was a lot of background noises which meant their was no tension and you couldn't just hear Harry's footsteps. So me and Gaby decided to as music to our film instead.
The music for our film, I think, is good as it sets a scene and creates tension and suspense on what the character is about to do. The music leaves tensions and suspense all the way though our film. I do think we could have improved on the background noises as you could hear people that wasn't in the film. But hopefully we will improve on this during our media course.

Overall I think for our first time, me and Gaby did quite well. The film could have gone better, like the filing and background noises but for our first time wasn't terrible. But we did complete the task and included everything that needed to be in the film e.g walking through a door.

Amy Martin

Preliminary Work

Preliminary film

Skyfall 007

  Skyfall was created in 2012 and directed by Sam Mendes. The film was awarded 8 BAFTA nominations, including best supporting actor and best supporting actress. Skyfall also got five academy award nominations, including best song (by Adele). 

    In the opening scene you have:

- James bond walking into an hotel room, which has a man dying in an arm chair, looking at laptop on the coffee table, with a part missing from it. 

- James goes down a flight of stairs which led to a street (with his gun in his hand). As James got onto the street his field partner (Eve) drove round the corner. James got in the car and she pointed down the one way street. 

- They started chancing a black BMW down the market street. During the chase the scene change to them chasing the man in the car and M in her office telling them what to do through head pieces. 

- During the chase they drive past a group of parked police motorbikes, which then join the chase. 

- Next both cars come side by side and try to bash into each other, but get separated by people and parked motorbikes. 

- Then James grabs the wheel and turns their car straight into the BMW, making the BMW lose control and catches the edge of the front wheel and tips the car on its side. 

- They then both crash into different markets. Both James and the man from the BMW get out of their cars and start to shoot at each other. Then the police men also chasing come down and the man from the BMW shot them dead to the ground. He then takes one of their police bikes and rides off. 

- James still shooting at him chases him for a second on foot before taking someones bike and starts to chase him again. Eve updates M and starts chasing the both of them. 

   There are many things in this opening scene that one make it effective and two make you want to watch the rest of the film. The things that make the opening scene effective is the the angels and shots of the camera. In the first scene of the film it must use more different shots and angels then another whole film. This is to engage the audience into the film to make sure they carry on watching it and possibly buy the DVD if they are watching it in the cinema. Another example which makes this film effective is the sounds (music), what the characters say - as its not loads but enough to keep the audience intrigued in the scene and so they carry on watching. The first scene also has very good actors and actresses but also introduces all the main characters so the audience gets to know them straight away, this creates more effect in the scene as the audience can then see what the rest of the move should be like and start to understand the story line and who everyone is (if they are good or bad).
   The main thing the first scene does is set up the story for the audience and draw them into the story, the film does this well as it did make me want to carry on watching and even if you haven't watched any James bond films before you understand whats going on; and understand the characters personalities and uniqueness.
   In the first scene you get to meet all the characters (which I think is a good idea). You firstly see Bond the one main character that everyone wants to meet. His personality comes across as power, clever, smart, brave and a very dominant man. You can tell all this through the way he acts (walks, holds himself (posture), the location he is in - which is violent - and his voice sound strong and manly). The audience then gets to meet Eve, Bonds field partner, her personality came across as a sexy, strong and powerful women that could be able to fight for herself. This was shown through her clothing (wasn't over girly) and through the way she acted and was not scared to hurt anyone. Then we meet M the boss. M is shown talking the Bond and Eve through walki talkies, kn her main office. She is shown as a boss and you can see her table at the front of her office, but with her assistants in front of her taking orders. The audience (very briefly) meet the bad guy - who basically goes across bad and thinks he has all the power in the world just because he has a gun.
   The sound is a big part of the opening scene because when Bond is waling through the hotel it is silent apart from Bond and Ms voice.Then when Bond walks out it start to get load, this shows that he is walking into something bad.The sound/ music gets louder as the tension builds.
   I think Skyfall has the best opening to any other film because a lot is happening at once, straight away there is a story line and tension is already starting to build. This is great because it draws in the audience and makes them want to carry on watching the film.



Amy Martin