The Post Mortem Post

So - how did we do in our first 48 outing with a Kapiti team? * Ideas - good premise, some good scenes, but split focus between 3 groups (class of students, teacher, guidance counsellor): 7/10 * Humour - some good jokes, especially towards the end, but a slow (joke-lite) start: 5/10 * Technical Stuff - well, you can hear all the lines and see all the peoples. No interesting camera work, OK music, sound fair but not as good as it would have been if our microphone hadn't broken some time between Saturday 7:30 and Saturday 10am: 6/10 * Working to Deadlines - had a rough cut by 11am, a safety cut (perfectly hand-inable) by 3pm, and got the more-or-less finished version (computer crashed when outputting the final final version) handed in 45 minutes early: 10/10 Overall grade for the film itself? Probably 6/10. It gets better as it goes along (the worst 2 scenes are right at the start, and they're not bad - just not particularly interesting/funny), and I quite like the last third or so. Sadly, I think we did a much better job with our practice film than with this one. Of course, the practice film took us 49 hours to put together (without driving to Wellington to hand it in), so in that sense we did much better this time. I am now very keen for Moviefest, as I wants to make more short films :) PS: About 40 - 50% of our takes were unusable (had to call cut early) because of planes overhead. The fine weather sent hundreds of people up for gliding and flying around, and apparently a large number of them decided to circle around and around the school where we were filming!