Week 2- Andy

I feel this is going to be our weakest film. I think what went wrong is that the film was rushed and I believe we didn’t fully understood the briefing. If we studied the briefing more we could have hatched a better script. It was a case of running with the first idea we had rather than coming up with multiple ideas and picking the best one. Another factor is that we as a group are still finding our feet; we had also gotten two new group members since the first week. I feel we should try and shy away from comedy as it is a very hard genre to pull off well. We thought it would be interesting to make a film about product placement although it ended up as an advert due to planning issues around the group. This was my first try at directing the group, I feel like I tried my best but I found we never knew what we were going to do next, constantly improvising what the next scene is going to be. We had lots of issues with location. Our main location was a corridor with a group of vending machines. The issue was that there was a lot of foot traffic around the vending machines, not only walking past the machines but needing to use them themselves, this meant we were constantly losing time to having to stop filming. There were also a lot of issues with sound as the machines were also very loud. At our secondary location we had issues because the light was very blue and we also had a lot of traffic noises.