Arts Review: Review of Arts Leadership

This is me Editing a part of the short film.

You can see more pictures of what we got up to on the day on Alice's (our groups cinematographer) flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/110108693@N05/

I am really happy with our project on the whole, all my team was proud of the film. I know this because two of them approached me and asked me if they could enter it into their local film festival around their village! obviously I was more than happy to let them, It is fantastic to see them so proud of what we created together.

I created this facebook group, which was extremely helpful when it came to communicating with each other and preparing for the shoot day:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/162465170630624/ 

I feel as though because my group was happy; I was happy. I felt happy that I was making other people happy and that I believe each of them reached their full potential, which is all I wanted!

I have dedicated each saturday, every week to the BFI academy, in various workshops and masterclasses. I have to admit, I was sceptecal about what I was going to learn and if would cover appropriate areas which would actually benefit me in the film making industry, however I have to say... Time well spent, each week I learned about specific areas, including: Editing, Producing, history of film, Cinematography and even animation. Each week I learned more and more about every role in a film making enviroment. I now feel confident to do anything in the industry and understand the skills that it takes for each role. I have still not decided what definitivly I am going to do within the industry, but I know it will be something. I love film making and films in general too much to not do something! Each week in learning more about every part of making a film from pre-production to post-production and even after the release of the film. It has just given me so much confidence in my own abilites.

http://www.interviews.kinematic.tv/AdamS1.mp4
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I also had a chat within our group on our facebook page chat, this is to review each others roles within the films and how we thought the final porject came out:

hey guys, how do you think the project went?

Chester Kirby named the conversation:Steel.

February 13th, 5:44pm

Guys...

February 13th, 6:46pm

Alice O'Donnell

I think it went really well, I know we got tripods in shots at the end but we found a way round it! That's an achievement it itself!

I was really happy with the film in the end anyway

Chester Kirby

Hahaha! Suppose but we just had to cut that shot, cause of the tripod!

Good work on the editing Chester... Good work from everyone, we did a good job

Alice O'Donnell

I know they are family so they have to be nice but everyone I know who has seen it said they thought the film was really good

It was a great location, so well done for finding that Alice!

Chester Kirby

Yes we'll done on the location and aye I did oreyt but wished we had more time to edit there was so much more I wanted to do!

Yeaa... The timing was tight but that considering,You did well in the time we had!

Alice O'Donnell

Yeah, I think the editing day was really tough, you did well just to stay calm under the pressure Chester haha I think Adam, you helped a lot in the whole process just making sure we were all doing things on time

Alice O'Donnell

I think we needed that

Chester Kirby

Ah cheers guys and ano the time was quote restricting for the shoot and edit! The footage we took in the day was pretty killah though!:) I wa Reyt please with it all!

Alice O'Donnell

Yeah, I think if we take into account the time we had it was really great, we could have really struggled and done some much worse, probably because we had planed quite a lot before

Chester Kirby

Yeah and I think that was down to a good producer good lad Adam son!

I think the preparation we made really helped when it came to shooting it, because we planned a lot, we were ready for it! Chantelle had a fantastic idea and the script from Sophie was great! I loves seeing the film come to life! I wouldn't change a thing!

Thanks guys

February 13th, 10:01pm

Sophie Higgett

I think the film came together pretty well in the end, I wish we'd had more time to spend on it though to get it as good as it could be. I think Alice got some great footage and Chester did a really good job editing it together, but I thought it was a shame we ran out of time on the shoot day. We ended up having to change the ending and I didn't think it quite came together properly from my script/story perspective. That being said, we really didn't have much time and I think Adam and Chantelle managed it well on the day!

February 14th, 9:10am

Sophie Higgett

Oh and Chantelle's idea was super great!

Chat Conversation End

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