Overall Evaluation of the Project

Production Skills

As this was the second experience of having professional exercise with actual camera equipment, most of members knew how to treat the camera and use the equipment in the right way. However, there always occur mistakes and unskilled things. I realised that drawing and imagining the scenes in the mind and the taking these scenes in the reality are slightly different so I had to change the original treatment slightly. The film became much longer than what I had planned. Moreover, finding and fixing good camera angles and positions took a long time and gave many NGs. I worked as a camera operator as well for both films and my group members helped me with fixing the shot angles and size to look good.

Difficulty of filming a dog

Filming a dog was very harder than what I had expected. It was hard to catch good shots of dog because the dog was running all the time. Kayu’s dog was supposed to look like an abandoned dog but the dog looked so happy and exciting to come out from home. Our group members had to put so much effort on controlling and managing the dog to be calm and relaxed. After spending 2 hours, we were able to complete the shooting film with the dog.

Team Cooperation

Our group members were all nice, kind and cooperative so I was able to finish the film project with a nice atmosphere. They all helped each other during the filming. We all shared the ideas about the film if there are any problems or need for any development. Also, they all acted from a sense of duty to care the camera equipment as they all helped with each other to set up and carry the camera.

Even though our films had mild problems such as time management and immature production skills, it was very good experience about learning professional production skills including reviewing the skills from the last semester and developing the skills. Group project can be very hard if there are conflicts but our group members worked hard and participated in the project with good attitude. They all respected each other and tried their best to help each other. Even though the film is not very perfect and it was a process to learn more about production skills in detail, I really enjoyed producing the short video with my group members and this film will be the milestone for the development of my next film.