First Draft

Evaluation

I will start by discussing the general, practical points about the process, mistakes etc. Below the following paragraphs about the practicalities of making our first draft, I have provided the opening sequence as a reference, however, the video can be found in a separate post for easy access.

For a first draft, Ed and I both agreed that the opening sequence isn't badly put together. In my personal opinion, considering that the actors which we had intended to cast originally weren't available our opening sequence was of reasonable quality, however, I understand that making excuses is useless at this point, especially because we aren't really able to physically do anything about it. Therefore, below I have provided solutions to some of the problems concerning the practical/ administrative part of making the opening sequence.

Firstly, the problem of casting actors can be solved easily by casting actors who are known to be reliable to turn up without excuse. As well as this, Ed and I will be re-shooting over the Christmas holiday which is usually a time where not many people are working. This makes it easy to cast actors who are going to be reliable enough to turn up as they are less likely to be busy. 

Secondly, due to my organisation, we had forgotten to bring the storyboard with us on the day of the filming which was a vital mistake. We had wrongly assumed that we'd be able to film the necessary parts, therefore, as I will discuss in the following post of the 'to-do' list, I chose to type up what is necessary to be re-filmed and updated with new actors etc. 

Thirdly, we obviously have the problem of meeting the deadline for the next draft on the 20th January 2017, however, I suspect that the editing process won't take up too much time because the first draft of our opening sequence only took four hours all together. Additionally, it shouldn't take more than four hours to edit as our first two hours were spent arranging the clips; because we won't need to start a whole new project in adobe, we won't have to load any new files or arrange anything new apart from the necessary clips. In fact, if we are efficient in using our time, we may also be able to create another draft to further refine the opening sequence and make any necessary adjustments.

Lastly, a point on editing is that Ed and I will have to ensure that the credits which we originally made for our first draft are refined and edited as the sizing and placement aren't necessarily appropriate or aesthetically pleasing. We sought advice from people who've watched our opening sequence to make suggestions about improvements we could make and credit placement was one of them. We'd been informed that because the titles seem to jump up in random areas of the screen, it distracts the eye from the actual footage and what is supposed to be happening.  

A useful idea is that we can, in fact, re-make the credits in a separate document before we even begin to re-film anything, therefore, when it comes to editing, time is not taken up by moving and re-making titles, it'll be ready to paste into the video when it comes to editing. We will, of course, have to ensure that it is saved onto our 'Google Drive' so we can easily access it on any computer, be it for editing or blogging.