'Ticket' and Evaluation!

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To evaluate the moving image project named ‘Interpretation’, I will discuss the previous five weeks. Firstly we were put into groups and each group was given a script. In my group was, Charis, Sam, Alex, Steph and Lauren. We were given a script called ‘Ticket’ and from the script we were all assigned specific roles. My role was the sound and production designer.
As a group we all listened to everyone’s ideas and decided on basing our film on a 1960’s romance genre, where we concentrated on the black and white tones and the sound from existing films, which captures the ambience.

After deciding on the genre, we planned our pre-production of the film. Charis, the producer set everyone certain jobs to make sure all the pre-production was done before the film making. I was in charge of the sound treatment however, we had trouble with the location because we planned on filming on a bus, tram or train but after discussing it we thought it would be more than likely impossible to get permission for either. As a result we decided to film in the Arboretum. When filming we added a short shot of a tram passing by, which helped break up the scenes and it also makes the audience be aware of what was happening.

We had the risk assessments checked and booked the equipment to start filming in week four. In spite of this, a day before filming the female and male actor was unavailable to film the following day. Although Alex, the director managed to find a male actor for filming and after some time asking around for a female actor, Alex ended up playing her role. The filming went quite well and the lighting and sounds turn out nicely. However I made a mistake of filming the entire film, as it was not my specific role and to be honest Steph, the camera and lighting team member should have stopped me or I should have not done it in the first place, however I did enjoy filming. At the end of week four we decided we needed a few more shots to develop the film a bit further and I wanted to add more sound effects within the film.

In week five we planned to meet, however towards the end of the project we had problems with certain members of the team not contributing. At the end of week five we finished editing and added all the effects we decided on. As I was the sound designer, it was crucial that I worked with Sam, the editor. Another problem occurred because it was only me and Sam staying behind to get the film done and the other members of the team didn’t make much input.

Overall I believe we developed a good use of strategies and managed to solve any problems during the pre-production and filming. We made our film quite abstract which makes the novel of the film fairly quirky and unpredictable.