GROUP PROJECT EVALUATION

Now we have finished our short film ‘Escape’ and the paper work is finished you may be wondering why, the film’s title has changed from ‘Trail’. Well this is because when we first began the project, the film had a different angle, but as the script and paperwork has developed over the weeks, the group felt the working title ‘Trail’ didn’t quite wok. With many suggestions such as ‘Jealous’ ‘Eliminate’ Elimination’ we finally settled on ‘Escape’ because the film’s story is about a young girl trying to escape from her emotions and things around her.

After we had our final edit, the brief stated we needed bars and tones and a counter clock, which we included by making a counter clock in Flash and using the bars and tones from Final Cut Pro. However when it came to putting the finished film on DV Tape, we realised that all these are done during this stage using the final cut templates. So the ones we made were not needed!

To be honest when we first began the project we didn’t get off to a good start, as the group lacked in communication, and one group member was showing very little interest and effort into making the project a success. Eventually Aleicia and I decided that we needed to make some progress with the project, and this meant continuing without Simon.

When Aleicia and I continued with the project, I felt we worked well together. The group’s communication improved drastically, regularly staying in contact via phone calls, text and e-mails. We both invested an equal amount of time and effort into the project, and I felt we made group decisions together.


There are elements of the finished film I would improve next time, like the sound quality, and possibly include some more dialogue, but this doesn’t bother me too much because our film is musically driven!

Throughout the whole project we have had a few hurdles with actors letting us down, a group member disappearing but we overcome these problems and managed to produce a short film to a good standard and i'm pleased with the finished product.