Final Evaluation Of My Fiction Adaptation Piece

I feel that my final fiction adaptation film and the final cut itself is mostly successful. After the feedback given to me during the fine cut viewing, my optimism for my film started to dwindle slightly, feeling that I had made something that was far too confusing for anyone who doesn't know the plot to understand. However, I have made changes which I had planned to do and outlined during the blog post about the fine cut feedback.

I am more confident with this new, more linear cut of the film. I feel that the story is more cohesive and viewers will be able to understand what is going on and why characters are in their current positions and the linear nature of this particular edit helps with this.

My overall biggest problem with the piece still is the fact that I feel it is a little rushed and not as polished as it could have been. Due to a tight filming schedule with the actors and crew availability, I feel that I didn't get all the shots that I might have wanted and I feel that I needed to retake a few of the shots that I was previously happy with. Use of a tripod would also have certainly helped due to some of the shots shaking and not looking as professional as it could have been.

This derives from the problem that I had basically given myself too much to do in the hopes of proving myself in several areas of the film-making process. As well as filming and editing the project, I also decided that I would create the soundtrack and do all of the sound during post production. This left me having to juggle various things at once meaning that I was giving more attention to some areas that others and those other areas faltered as a result. The soundtrack, as I have previously stated, feels rushed as I only gave myself just over a week to to create it in its entirety despite previous planning and ideas while also trying to focus on getting the edit right.

Another problem was the fact the second actor I had in mind was found to be unable to participate two days before the shoot day, meaning that I had to improvise and use a crew member as an emergency stand-in. The result was that the quality of the acting was not as strong as I would have hoped.

Overall, I am still mostly happy with the final cut of my film despite these few issues though I wish I gave the same amount of time to each aspect of the filmmaking process. This is a project that I feel I might like come back to during my spare time, as with the soundtrack, to re-film and create the definitive cut that better displays my original vision.