What i learnt from my Foundation Portfolio - Ben Brown

- working in a team, it is hard to keep organised so that that everybody has different jobs to do within the task and so it that all the work it productive rather than it not being needed. There were also disputes between some of the members in our group between ideas and editing techniques so that we didn't get things done as fast as we should have and ended up rushing our finished product. I am going to choose my group carefully this year to make sure this will not be a problem.

- the organisations on the shots we were going to shoot (story board) was not very clear so we struggled in trying to imagine what our short film was really about and what we were trying to put across to the audience. In my next productions i am going to make the story board as detailed as possible so that every shot and even every idea that i have is shown on a page so that we can piece it all together and have a picture of what the films going to look like him my head before we even start.

- filming in an external environment was tricky because you could never tell if the weather you had used on one day in your film would be the same the next time you want to film outside, if the weather changes even slightly it can affect the 'continuity editing' of the film and not make it very realistic. Next time we need to plan when we are filming in an external environment so that we know to do it all at the same time make the continuity as smooth as possible.

- filming in public places proved to be hard, it had to be filmed in sections so the scenery in the background did not get in the way, like an old man walking past the camera.


Ben Brown