Film Evaluation

Whilst carrying out my primary research for the subject area we were given, I came across an interesting film called “The Shagggy Dog” which was similar to the idea we came up with. We were given a script, with a title of “Dog” we had to use our imagination to come up with an interesting storyline which would attract the viewers. Everyone was set different roles in the crew, in which they could support the group. I opted to be the producer for this film, as I am interesting in such a profession in the up and coming future. I previously was producer in my A level project, so I was not a complete stranger to the area in which I will be working in. Being a producer includes many responsibilities, as they have to conduct everyone’s behaviour towards the project along side with the Director, which has to inform the producer of everyone’s conduct. Whilst doing our film I had to call the Nottingham council and speak to numerous amount of departments to gain permission to film in certain area’s for explain “ forest fields”, I had to get permission from the communication department to get such permission to film in the area, permission was granted by Mrs Kirsty, unfortunately she did not want to give her surname. Carrying out the risky assessment and location recce was also not easy, as I had to focus on small details in the area in which could affect our filming.

I personally think the filming process went well, saying this of course we had to overcome a lot of obstacles like random people getting into the mise-en-scene, this challenged us to smoothly proceed in our filing, reason being for this is because we are not allowed to film anyone without their consent, doing so would invade their privacy. The positives I can take out of this task, I would say is it raised my confidence in communicating with people in the council, not only that but also allowed me to enhance my creativity, whilst carrying out my primary research. What I think I could have done better to provide my crew with a more successful film, well I have to admit I felt like I could have done so much more to provide my crew with better locations. When we first started talking about locations I came up with an idea to film in London, but unfortunately due to the lack of funding we were unable to proceed in the idea. I also opted to hold the massive microphone whilst filming, which I found extremely interesting as I provided the film with real life sound, however the disadvantage in this was that if the wind blew to hard and we were not holding the microphone straight you would be able to hear everything, which would not be good for the film itself., Which we came across but managed to overcome without any problems. Whilst supporting my camera man, a random up to me and was asking me what I was doing with all these equipment, at first I thought it was somebody from the council, but then he told me his a BBC reporter, and was interesting to find out what we were doing. He also asked to send the film to him after it was finished.