LO4: Activity Sheet 15

Summative review

The strengths of the working processes include working with others in The Tree of Light project. I enjoyed working with the project leaders to help them come up with constructive feedback to send back to The Henley Festival at the end of each session. The other strengths of my working on the project have been editing many different videos at the same time; this has helped me gain more skills, combining my organisation skill with working Premiere Pro as quickly as possible to get more work done to meet the tight deadlines. On the other hand the weaknesses of this completed project would include the equipment I was using, this slowed me down quite a bit as the tripod stopped me from achieving the best shot I could get while the computer stop me from editing to my best ability’s due to trying to conserve time to render the work for export.

The responses to my work from my client and my teacher have conclusively been very helpful with the development of my video, it has helped me gain experience on how to improve the quality of my work and make it more informational to the audience. The end product of my video was visibly better because of the constructive feedback I had received from both people. The improvements I needed to make made me look at the video from another angle which made it clear that the video did not explain what the project was about.

Some goals for future improvement include getting the correct equipment sorted before filming, this would mean advanced preparation for organising buy the equipment or borrowing the equipment to make sure I had it ready working for the days of shooting. Looking at the feedback I gathered from my tutor and class I would also set another goal of after finishing an edit looking back at the film as I had never seen it before. This will help me think of new ways to inform the audience about the topic DVD using some credits and pops outs.

Future commissions

To make sure potential clients see my work I will add the work to a portfolio, this folder will include many pieces of work which I have completed over the past few years from videos I have filmed to photos I have taken and essays I have written, making sure I show a range of work to show my full potential in the working world. Additionally I will include the details of the many commissions to my CV; this will help broadcast my range of experience in creating pieces of work for business. This information will also include a few statements from the companies I have works with stating how well I have completed the work at a professional standard and how they would recommend me to other companies wanting similar work completed. I will not create a website to broadcast my work as most of the work I have created does not have permission to allow their work on social media websites and websites which are not related to the topic of the project.

LO4: Activity Sheet 14

Self-evaluation

I started this project by meeting with The Henley Festival to gather information about the project and receive a brief from them. After this is started to break down the requirements they set to come up with some other ideas using a mind map, I did this to combine my ideas with the brief to make sure the product at the end will be to a high standard. I could not extend my ideas too much in this project as the brief I got set did not give me much room to be creative as they had set strict requirements for want they wanted to see from the filming workshop.

The research I undertook was very important to help me come up with some ideas about how I could edit my footage; these ideas included whether I should use music to over right the footage or to use the audio from the ordinal footage. I found from the research I completed that it was best if you used a bit of both, combining the best audio received from the footage with some music to mix up the sound of the video. This really helped the quality of the edited video as it help build up a story for the audience, listening to the over view of the project from the workshop leaders and then switching to the music focusing on the joyful expressions from the children.

While I was in the production stage of my project, filming the workshop, many factors went well. This included the type of footage I gathered such as reaction shot from the children, watching them be inspired by what they saw in the session. Other factors included the feedback from the children during the workshop, many of the responses I herd were how much they enjoyed the session and how it has helped them open up their eye to the way they see the trees in their garden. On the other hand the parts of production that went badly included the footage I gathered when I using the tripod for some shots; I had this problem due to the tripod being sticky which would not allow me to twist the camera around smoothly to capture a panning shot of the children. I overcame this problem by capturing the panning shots by hand, this turn out really well as they were much smother compared to the shots captured with the tripod. But as this was the only problem with the production of this project I believe this stage went really smoothly and I feel there was not much room for improvement.

The final project was very successful but very busy, I completed three different films two of which included the final result of a dance routine and the third included the Trinity video documenting the three filming workshops. The final cuts of all the three films turned out really well, they included all the requirements which were included in the brief which meant when I handed the DVDs into the festival they were very happy with the final results.

I learnt many technical skills during this project; these include working the camera and Premiere Pro quickly. The camera skills I gained include working the camera quickly to capture the different reactions from the children while still looking for opportunities to film the project leaders teaching the children about the trees and the project. The other skill I gained was editing projects quickly at a high standard in Premiere Pro, during the editing process I found many different ways to cut the editing time by using different tools to cut up the footage into different sections and selecting the footage to add effects to the whole project at once.

If I was going to do a similar project in the future I would make sure I had a better tripod and a faster computer to complete the editing for the project. I found when I was completing this project a lot of time was wasted trying to get the best shot from a tripod which was not working to its best and a computer which was not built for as much editing as I was doing on it. I feel if I applied these improvements to a project similar in the future I will be able to complete the project to a higher standard that I did this time round.

Feedback from other sources

            I gathered feedback from my client at Henley Festival, after she had watched the video once she gave me some feedback. The feedback included adding some more headings and tags to show what is happening in the video. After initial feedback she watched the video again she gave extra information i could included in the credits to make it clearer that the organiser was The Henley Festival and the activity was about Film Production. After I received my feedback I re-edited my documentary to include the feedback, after this I handed back into the Festival office as a final product.

I gathered extra feedback from my tutor and the class, this feedback made me go away and re-think editing changing the video slightly before handing the DVD into Mandy Beard at The Henley Festival. These changes included making the voice audio louder, cutting some fades out, adding some informational text and deleting some shot to extend others. I made these changes as the feedback I received was focused on the class not understanding the reason for the video; this is why they suggested adding some informational text to explain the project at the beginning of the video. Other feedback I received was targeted at different cuts needing to be changed and audio needing to be at a higher volume.  I really value this feedback as it has helped improve my work to a higher slandered so when I handed the video into Mandy Beard she was very impressed with the quality of the work.

            After receiving feedback from my client and teacher I can start to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the work I completed. The strengths of the work would included the content I put in my video, it included a wide range of activities from the three workshops as well as the reaction shots from the children as the activities progressed. The weaknesses of my video included the lack extra content in the documentary, this involved not introducing the project and the project leaders in the video which made it hard for the audience to understand the reason for making the video. After receiving the feedback from the client and my teacher I feel that my video has improved dramatically and I am pleased with the professional standard it is up to.

LO3: Final Product

Videos Completed For Tree Of Light Project

Trinity Primary School – Documentary Video, Tree of Light Filming Workshop  

Robert Piggott Jr. – Dance Video, Tree of Light Dance Workshop

St Johns Primary School – Dance Video, Tree of Light Dance Workshop

These video cannot be uploaded onto this blog or any other social networking website due to legal reasons, all these videos have been put on a disk for examination.