Evaluation : What Went Well

Overall I think that the process of creating our opening scene was relatively successful and we managed to improve on our preliminary to create a good romantic-comedy narrative and opening scene.


For our planning, I think our research went particularly well because we gained a lot of in-depth knowledge about the genre and characters before beginning to form our own concept. We spent a lot of time formulating different ideas and options for our opening scene based on what we had found out and then once we had a basis of what we wanted to do, we began to sculpt and mould the ideas to be better. For example, we came up with a simple narrative about how we wanted to show the journey of the character 'coming out' and then we began to add to it by coming up with the idea of using texting which we got from researching into rom-com LoL. We also then decided to begin with the end of the film, an idea we got from researching into Love Rosie which we perhaps wouldn't have thought of hadn't we done enough research.


For our filming, I think our directing and visions were what went well as when we got on the set for each scene we already knew exactly what we wanted to do and what needed to be done. This enabled us to then effectively direct the actors and the camera to make the visions become reality. It also increased our productivity as we began to film as soon as possible after arriving on the sets rather than spending time trying to figure out what to do and having to constantly change and refilm things.


For editing, the studio logo went particularly well considering none of our group had previously ever made one and when completed we were impressed with what we had created and now have learnt a new skill. Also our perseverance was something that helped us achieve a good final product because when editing we faced numerous difficulties, but managed to learn and find a way to overcome each of them which enabled us to carry to get our final product.


Finally for our evaluation, our delegating went well as we split up what needed to be done between the group which meant everyone had a high level of input and lots of different ideas were discussed for each question. It also meant that we managed to complete the whole evaluation in a shorter timeframe as everyone took on a piece of the workload to complete rather than us each doing it individually which would've taken longer.