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Sunday 16 June 2013

Creativity

How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?
As a group we all shared our ideas, and then from there we built on those ideas and put the best ones together.

Did you experience limits/blocks on your creativity?
When we had little motivation we found it hard to be creative. Also when we disagreed on each others ideas we found it to be creative as we felt as we were being restricted with how creative we could be as we had more limited ideas to use.

How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?
Although we had to work within the boundaries of creating an opening for a film, this was still fairly general and so we found it fairly easy to still be creative when working to the brief.

Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?
Working to a convention did stifle our creativity as we had to stick between certain guidelines and so we had to put more thought into our ideas.

To what extent did you need to work with others and 'bounce ideas' off other people to truly be creative?
Working with others made me more creative as working in a group meant we could take the best ideas and combine the together to be truly creative.

How much of your creativity was about trial and error?
A fair bit as we found ourselves starting with one idea and then finding it not working and then adapting that idea.

To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?
I dont think this was an issue as i was working with people i knew well and so felt confident enough around them to share all my ideas with them.

To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?
This stopped us from being creative in some ways, however i also think this made us more creative as we found ourselves to experiment with the camera's and editing software.

Thursday 2 May 2013

Final Piece

Audience Feedback.

Conclusions.
From looking at our audience feedback we found that we should of subverted more from the thriller genre and made it less apparent to what the killers intensions were, we could of done this at the end of our opening by not having the killer walking out the house with the knife in hand. This would of helped to leave the viewers in suspense at the end of watching our opening. We also found that another way that we could of improved the tension of our film could of been by giving the snakes less prevalence, By doing this the we would of been able to focus more on the killer and the girl so the story line could of been made more clear for the viewers, it would also help the viewers to build relationships that they could relate to.

Planning of our final piece

Call Sheet

In order to remain organised with timings, something we found difficult with the preliminary task we created a call sheet in order to help us be more organised.

Storyboard
We created storyboards to help give us an idea of what shots we were going to do, this would help us save time when filming as we would already know what we were doing. We decided to give more time to this aspect of the planning of our film as we found ourselves to have rused it in the prelinmary task which meant we made small mistakes.