1st Tutorial and Group Meeting

This week we had our first group tutorial with Chris where we went over our 2 minute character study film and he gave us written feedback from both himself and Chrissie who was the other tutor present at our screening.

The written feedback given on our 2 minute film.

The feedback was much as I expected it to be, with a lot of it mimicking the tutors verbal feedback after the screening last week. After getting this back, we discussed each part of it and went through the reasoning behind each point as well as our own opinions on the areas that were addressed. We all thought that the feedback was very fair and accurate, and that we would seek to improve these areas when we came about shooting for our final film, as well as if we had time, we would attempt to re-edit the 2 minute film to bump the grade up to a first if possible.

The second half of the tutorial was spent discussing what we would be doing as a group to begin planning and shooting for the final project in the upcoming week until the next tutorial. We decided that we would have the final script ready, most if not all the actors ready as well as a schedule for shooting. After discussing this with Chris and leaving the tutorial, we met as a group afterwards to discuss what each member could do to help this process. We also decided that we would try and have a rough shot list, floor plan and/or storyboard completed for the next weeks tutorial as well to try and manage time better than we did last time for the 2 minute film.
For next week, I have decided to re-edit the 2 minute film with Chris, and try and make it more clear in terms of narrative and coherence, as well as starting to do some research into editing techniques that I could apply to the final 10 minute film.