Brief 7: Evaluation

This last brief was one to finish extended practice, with an issue that we’ve both discussed for a while. I feel that both me and Jon are similar in the ways of wanting our work to be focused around on going issues, to find ways in which to highlight, solve or just initiate discussion around the topics.

Working on this brief on it’s own was different as it meant we could put all of our time into this, which ultimately sped up the process whilst giving us more time to experiment with the production side of things. Collaborating with a photographer also allowed us to learn a lot from her wide knowledge base of cameras, lighting and setting up the equipment.

Both art directing and videography were new skills to us that we both managed to get a grasp of over the process of making this short film. It sparked an interest in the process and the effectiveness of it also. It gives us a medium to address our thoughts and ideas that we so often don’t consider producing work for due to the lack of formats we feel confident in.

Since completing our final piece, we received further feedback that suggested to refine our aim of the brief, as it seemed we tried to tackle more than one aspect which caused confusion amongst other classmates. Looking back now I feel as though we tried to address more than one issue which sparked some contrasting thoughts amongst viewers.

As a result we are set on the idea of developing this piece further for our End of Year Show by reimagining our storyboard for the video taking into account the feedback we received. Plus using our new found skills to develop something hopefully better produced than our first piece.