Evaluation Of Final Product

 Our short film is about a student who falls asleep during a boring lesson.

In our film we used a variety of close shots, medium shots and long shots.

We decided to choose a medium POV shot (the teacher is explaining a lesson) as the film's opening shot.








Then comes a long establishing shot of a classroom,which establishes the mis-en-scene (the lesson is in progress). Though we see it only for a few seconds, it plays an important part in our film. In this way, the viewer can see where the action takes place. Here we used a camera movement technique called panning. We moved  the camera horizontally to the right. With this technique we established a scene. We did the pan shot using a tripod so we could move our camera around without any shake. Later I have read that the pan shot often starts with a still frame, and ends with a still frame. So next time we will take this into consideration.

The action then develops through a mix of medium and close shots.

A medium wide shot (A student is sitting at the desk and looking at the window )This allows the viewer to get to know the character more closely by viewing his facial expressions and body language. We see that he is bored. It is an eye-line shot : a sequence of two shots. In the first, you are shown a character looking; in the second you are presented with what he  sees, as if you were looking out of that character's eyes.

 Then one more eye-line shot follows.

                                                                                A student is looking at the clock.


                                                                                           



                                                                                 A view of a big clock showing the time.   

                                                                               
 

The student is daydreaming about going outside.Suddenly he is falling asleep.








We used some special effects in our film to make it more entertaining.

                                                                          Eye effect gives an element of entertainment that makes the viewer want to watch the film.








Transparency effect helps to create the illusion of walking in dreams, not in reality. Unfortunately, we couldn't continue this effect in the beginning of the scene of walking along the corridor because we hadn't filmed the necessary shot before.

We used a tracking shot in the scene of going along the corridor.  The camera was following the action. We didn't have a dolly to pull the camera and get a smooth movement. We did the tracking shot hand held. That's why the scene is looking shaky. Nevertheless, it creates an interesting effect.



In his dream the student is moving to the lockers area in order to take his things and go home. When he opens the locker, he sees devil's face inside. He is frightened At this moment he hears a voice and wakes up (jumping up with fright). He realises that his teacher is standing next to him and the eyes and the voice are ...his teacher's.


Camerawork: the camera was used at different angles. Here is one example:

A low angle shot was used to show the dominance and power of the teacher. This is also a POV shot, because we see that from the point of view the student.  It helps give a sense of confusion, fear and insecurity in the student, who is psychologically dominated by the figure on the screen.




Editing: In the editing process, we selected shots, reduced them to the necessary length and put together in sequences following continuity rules ; then soundtrack was completed and added, along with effects and titles. We used available software, ''Adobe Premiere Pro CS6'' and ''Adobe After Effects CS6'', however most of editing as done in Adobe Premiere Pro,which is a really comfortable and useful program.

Sound: We wanted to use the sound to amplify the action.At first, we were really unsure about the sound, but then we decided to pick a 'Heart Beat'sound. It fit in really good.


To sum up, I feel that I have learnt a lot in the time between filming our continuity exercise video and this short film.I have learnt a lot about the importance of camera angles. Also I found that Adobe Premiere Pro is a lot easier to use than I had thought before. I learnt the importance of planning before filming.