Evaluation!

For this assignment I had to do a short film using only 8 shots.
The storyline had to be someone going from one place to the other and my job was to film that person walking to wherever he was meant to. The person I used for this was Matt, there's no real reason behind it we just ended up together; his trip was from the atrium to his classroom.
For this we were not aloud to use any camera movement which actually made this assignment more of a challenge and we had to use as many different shots we could.
My short film starts with a wide shot from the balcony to the atrium where we see Matt sitting on a chair and then he gets up and goes. I used this shot because we could see where he was so it was kinda of an establishing shot this way the audience watching it wouldn't be confused of where he was.
The next few shots were just me following Matt. There was a long shot, a close up of him passing his card on the swipe thingies, low angle shot of him going through the doors, medium shot of him getting to the door another long shot of him walking into the classroom and sitting down and finally a medium close up of him working; the shots vary and i think the story isn't that hard to understand, it makes since and they go with each other.
As i was my own producer i think i did everything right, i understood what to do on the story board and log sheet. I think I did both sheets pretty well and easy to understand. I missed directing and doing things my own way it does sound selfish but most people are like that, i think i was good at that because Matt always knew what to do and I'd go through it once before we did the real thing.
I thought that the editing was going to be tricky because I'd never used final cut pro before, but it's basically the same as the one we used last year, well it's better and as we only needed the basic skills to do this assignment it was pretty easy.
Overall i thought this was a very easy project, all i needed was the same basic skills we learnt last year. It was very good to refresh my memory on the practical skills and it was a easier way to start interacting with other people in my class. Also on editing it was nice helping people that weren't sure on what to do.