Fields and Frames 16- Final thoughts + Evaluation (After assessment)

Overall I am really pleased with the way in which the film came out. I feel that the Fields and Frames classes really taught me to push the boundaries of film and come up with something completely new and out of my comfort zone. Being someone who isn't very technologically skilled, I found it interesting to experiment more in premiere with visual effects and also experimenting with the camera through techniques such as Pixillation. I thoroughly enjoyed the Film Scratching workshop and was happy with the way in which the scratching came out. I feel its interesting to look back at the history of Film and technology and see where it all started in comparison to today, where everything has become so technological and advanced to the point where we forget about the roots of Film and technology.

I felt proud of the way in which I had set up my two screens in G03 and it looked the way I wanted it to. What I found particularly difficult was getting both screens to play in sync due to the older screen playing from the first frame and the other screen playing from the moment I paused it at the very beginning. To get over this difficultly next time, I will create a small count down at the beginning to allow time to pause both and get them correctly in sync. From the comments I recieved from Rosie, Kathleen and Vicky, I understood where I could have gone with the piece to improve it. The difficulties I had with the sound of the second screen was reflected in the comments I recieved. To improve the piece I would make my own soundscape or use just pholy sounds to make it seem more realistic rather than forcing a certain mood of nostalgic which the music I chose gave. To improve my second screen further, which was the screen which received the most critical feedback, I would include a more visually interesting look, which I gave to my first screen through the use of scratching and colour (shown below).

My Two-Screen installation. 

Still from the first screen of my film. 

If I was to make any further improvements to the film, I would've recorded more voice over sounds and other footage of a bigger variety of people. In addition to this I would've made sure I had a rough edit done before I went to my tutorials to get a more developed feedback from Vicky, Rosie and Owen.

Problems I found during the making of my film was that I lost some footage that I feel would have improved the piece. For example, I lost several videos I made in the film cutting rooms, however it wasn't until after my film was made and timings were set did I find the film scratchings I created. This taught me to back up all of my files onto an external hard drive so I don't lose any footage next time and to double check all of the folders on my computer in case it shows up.

I also enjoyed seeing other groups works, for example Lauren, Mollie, Laura and Katherine's shoot was interesting to be a part of (Even if I was just Caterer!). It was interesting to get pointers for timings of my shoot, as their group organised the day well with what will be shot within a certain time frame.