Exceptional/Prelim

Final Project: Exceptional
Prelim Task: "I've been expecting you..."

Thursday 24 March 2011

Conclusions

Personal contributions to the project.

Finding the dramatic music
First 3 parts of opening comic
Last part of opening comic
Whole of the opening credits (Eg, from title to unveiling of Angus' face.)
Filming more than half of the project
Storyboard
Initial character designs

What have I learnt?

During the course of the project, I have learnt many things, but one thing that stood out for me was the fact that careful planning can easily be thwarted by unreliable actors. Both of our initial actors had to be dropped because their prior commitments meant that waiting for them would have been an illogical decision. Jasmine, who was to be our Jessica was busy with music and Gabriel, who was Angus, seemed to be all over the place, sometimes he was there and other times he cancelled for something else. In the end, we just used Eoin and Olivia, maybe not the best actors possible, but sufficient enough so that we finished our project in time, as we had about 2 weeks to film and edit the whole thing. The reason we had so little time was because of the afore mentioned actors, who caused us to keep pushing back our shoot schedule. Apart from this, I haven't really learnt much in the way of technology, as I'd already learnt it all previously during the prelim.

What did we do well? What could we have done better?

I think we all managed to keep a cool head in the face of adversity. When we had to deal with our actors, we made our decisions quickly and swiftly. I also think that our pencil scene is rather well done. It looks real enough from a distance, so it really looks like Eoin was lifting it with his mind.