Practical Week Evaluation

Our brief was to create a short film called 'The Package' in which some form of item was transferred from one place to another. We had to create suspense and jeopardy.

 We started very smoothly for the first few days, but then we had a major setback; I lost the SD card. This was not good as it meant we had to re-shoot over half of our film. We recovered quickly and I am pleased with the final product.

I have learnt that time pressure is the hardest thing to overcome on a zero-budget film such as this, and we were very pushed to hit the deadline, with me having to come in and finish the editing in my own free time. This was unfortunate but not too bad because I had nothing else to do during this period anyway.

I was operating sound, and I found that it is very difficult to hold a boom pole, the DAR (Digital Audio Recorder), and the cables all at the same time, and ended up affixing the DAR to the tripod. it is also hard to get close enough to the sound source to get decent audio.