Unit 5 Production Managment Evaluation

Unit 5 Production Management Evaluation

Legal

Our work keeps to the breaches of legal in the following area called permission to film (Privacy). During the Pre-production we had to gather cast that we needed to film with.  The actors we chose were Faris Rahman (as Jack), Matthew Morre (as Tony), Daniel Jones Squirrell (as Freddy), Usama Mohammad (masked man) and Rayhan Ahmed. For some of our actors they were our crew member such as Daniel Jones Squirrell, Usama Mohammad and including me, this was because we had come up with the original idea for our film.

In the regulation of Privacy it told us that we should always ask permission to the person that we would like to participate, if the child should under the age of 18 we should ask the parent consent to film with their child. In the regulation royalties it says that we should pay the people who had participated in our film and credit them in the credits.

I feel that we all had stuck to the regulation of privacy as during the pre-production I had made sure we had called the actors parent as we wanted to get their consent in term of filming with their child at night. The reason why we had to do this is because we concerned with the amount of night scene we had to produce since nightmare scenes from Freddy’s perspective of seeing his friend’s die right in front of him. This was done during the time of 1:40 where Rayhan (as Tony) dies! We had clarified to their parent that they will not die actually; they will be acting to die. With some parent we were aware that their child was fasting and we reassure them that we will keep them safe. However we did not stick to the code of royalties as we did not pay the actors however we did credit their names in the film at 5:55 in the short film

Regulatory

On way this film called A Mind of His Own sticks to requirement of 15 from the BBFC. In our film he violence is strong however we did not make it look gory. This suitable for a fifteen year old to watch as there is no strong sex involved with the violence and they should bot feel unsettled.

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However I feel that this film may not be acceptable for a 15 due to the fact that due to the fact that there is a lot of imitable behavior. In our film our film it show lots of people dying in different way and this can be easily copied by children.

Financial

In production we used most of the resources that we had already such as the equipment and most of the props. I feel that we had spent well on the red mask we need to use in our film; however we did not spent money on the blue mask as we felt it was unnecessary to use in our film. Though I thought that the mirror that was bought was a bit unexpected, I knew that a mirror was being bought but it really look cheap and very dusty. This item was used in our film during the time of 4:50 where Tony end up getting hit by the mirror. I also feel that we should have spent some money in getting new item such as getting a new camera such as black magic as they have got better q
uality than Cannon 1200D.

Unit 5 Production Management Evaluation continued

Time management

I feel we did had to waste a lot of time when it came filming on the days we were meant to film, this was due to the fact that some people came extremely late or due to unavailability. This therefore made us lose a lot of time when filming because we had days where we could not film at all. However when everyone came together to film we were all very proactive and determined to finish filming quickly especially for the one that was the night scenes. As you can see during the time of the 1:30 to 2:00 in our short film the lighting seems to have got darker rapidly. We did not follow our plan when filming as we just ended up filming during the days that the actors or crew members were available.

Leadership

I feel that I should have shown more leadership skill as I did not participate much into when I needed to, especially when there was time I could have helped out. There was a time where we had so much time when filming due to the fact of difference views and opinions of certain shot. This made one of our cast members who happened to be not even part of the crew team, ending up leading the group for one day (that was embarrassing!). I should have started have telling people what to do for the next rather than wasting time in letting people disagree with each other. However I ended up taking the leadership of editing since I knew how to edit quicker than the others in the crew team.

Communication

The communication during the production was lacking and this cause a lot of problem whilst filming on the day. On some of the day when some actors were meant to turn up on time they did not, this was because one of our crew members ended up telling people wrong information during the day of the filming. I can admit that at some of point I should have clarified with the director the locations where we were filming on the day therefore I would not have been late on some day. Next time I will check with people rather than making an assumption of the place we were going to film. 

Meeting requirement

Our idea meets to the brief that we were provided. In the brief it gives some rules that we should stick to, here are some of the rules: ‘No copyright video and/or audio may be used, your submission must have duration between 5 and 10 minutes. From the Screen Festival website they said that we had not use real alcohol.  We stuck to these rules for our idea; we made sure that we clearly had no copyright music and video on our film. During the pitch that we did, we had shown to the viewer the audio we would be using for our idea; we proved to them that we were not using copyright music. Our only problem was that we did not stick to using all the music that we had said we were going to use. We had to look for new music as some were as effective and it did not establish any creepy vibe. We also stuck to the rules of making our film between 5 to 10 minutes as our film finished between those times. We did not use alcohol as most of our actors were under age and that a few of them were fasting.

Achieving agreed outcome

Our final film meets to our original idea when we pitched our short film idea. In our film we clearly establish the genre we are going for is a horror genre. In our pitch I quoted to the viewers that ‘the genre we chose for our short film is going to be horror’. ‘The reason why we are going for this genre is because there is a lot of blood and death.’ We illustrate this type of genre in our film during the time of 6:05 where Freddy becomes possessed and turns into the masked man by grinning into the mirror. However I was disappointed with the fact that during our pitch we said to the viewers that we would have six characters but we ended

up having 5 characters, due to unavailability. We were given advice from the audience that we should cut down the amount of characters that were involved in our film, even though we explained to the audience that we were ambitious of introducing all 6 characters and showing their deaths within ten minutes. To avoid this problem happening again we will make sure that we have substitute actors to provide us with help when needed. Also in our pitch we said our opening sequence will looks like a party and in our film it does not look like a party. Next time we will do it in a location where it looks like a party and decorate the place.

Working to agreed timescales

We managed to edit our film on time whereas for the filming deadline we did not finished on this was because a lot of events happened during the week we were filming.  This therefore made us use some of our editing session time for filming. We eventually ended up finishing filming at the last and made the improvements, due to the fact that our communication between each other had improved.

Recommendation for future task

For the future I will make sure that I am the director for the project so therefore I can gain some experience in terms of leadership. I will make sure that the communication is a lot better as it the only way to get people understand what is going on. I will avoid making mistakes of going to the wrong location to film and also make sure that I clarify the place I need to go in the first place.