Evaluation for NOSTALGIA: G321

It has been a great experience to have the opportunity to film Nostalgia and work with my partner. I'm very sad that this journey has finally come to an end.
This is my evaluation that I have personally made. Hope you enjoy :)

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Evaluation planing

Today, we have started our evaluation. For question 4, I had an idea to show 5 students who has not seen the film and film their reaction while watching the film on camera. Also a teacher. After they finish watching the film I have created 3 questions to ask which are:
1) What was the plot of the sequence you just watched?
2) Would you watch the rest of the film?
3) What went well and what would you improve?

I thought to ask a teacher aswell because I think they would have a very different opinion to the students, and this will have an understanding of the target audience. 
Also when we are going to ask the students, we will ask mixture of races and gender so there will be a fair judgement. 

The way I am going to film this clip was inspired by watching "Kid's Reaction To.." videos which I've found on YouTube.
For example:

NOSTALGIA: Friday

Today, We have made final editing for the film and headed in. The parts where we edited are the colour of the title, putting in the photographs I've took and the credits.

NOSTALGIA: Editing (4)

Today our mission was to film the missing footages and add in the photographs I've took last night. After the mission was completed, me and my partner was watching through the film and decided to edit some sounds and add in some fading cuts to make the film look more professional not just have some kind of boring cuts. 

This is one example of the cutting we used, it is called "Fade":

You can see Melodie and Harry fading in from the shot of Nicole. This gives an atmosphere of flashback. We used this simple cut in other flashback scenes also. 

This is another example of where we used the "Fade" cut:

We used this cut because it shows that the characters are in a different location on a different day to show the time they used to spend with each other. This is important in our film as it shows why Harry rushed out of the talk show studio as he loves Melodie and how that question triggered him into thinking only about Melodie. Without these flashback scenes, the audiences and the viewers will not know the relationship Harry and Melodie has. 

NOSTALGIA: Thursday

Today, at lunch I have filmed the scene of where the 98Boys are walking on stage. This took 15 minutes all together. There is one minor point which I don't really like and this is when (Harry?) Ben walks on stage, 1/4 of his head is not in the shot. This makes it awkward to watch and unprofessional. I was thinking to re film this scene, however the Attenborough hall was being used for parents evening so had to leave it as that. My partner has added in the photographs I've took yesterday in the appropriate space for the opening of the talk show. 

NOSTALIGIA: Wednesday

Today, I have recorded a new recording of Ben M and have changed the script as me and my partner changed our thought to a gay couple so we had to record it again. During my free period i had changed the script and called Ben M over to record. The process took around 30 minutes. Including the editing process. The script matches with the slides which move on time which I am very happy about as this was a hard achievement to make. 

Also this afternoon (few hours ago) I had been to Richmond by the bridge and the river to take some photos which looks like the couple has been papped. This was achieved by using a zoom lens. I've photograohed some branches in the shot as this would make it look more like a "papped" photograph rather than "photo shoot" photograph. 

NOSTALGIA: Plan to film the missing footages

Today, my partner and I had planned to film the missing out bits on Thursday and film it during lunch time. The missing out scenes are: 

1) Footage of Nicole appearing at the beginning of the talk show.

2) Photographs of Savvas and Jono holding hands. 

3) Footage of the 98Boy's walking on the stage.

4) Melodie breathing.

5) The title of the film (WB Productions etc...)

6) Recoding of Ben Morris as narrator. (Recorded by mic).

7) Photograph of the city; London taken from the London Eye.

We must finish filming and editing by Friday. In order to achieve this, we have made this plan after writing down what is missing.

Wednesday - Recording of Ben M during free period.

                    - Photographs of Jono and Savvas after school (around 8pm so its dark).

                    - Photographs of the City.

Thursday - Footage of Nicole appearing at the beginning of the talk show during lunch.

                - Footage of the 98Boy's walking on the stage during lunch.

                - Footage of Melodie breathing.

                - The title of the film.

Friday - Edit everything during lunch and after school.