My experience

Since I was young I have always been good with a video camera. I used to film my friends and I dancing and singing, or make up a storyline and film it, so when we were set this task I was definitely looking forward to it! I have never used equipment before such as a tripod but this was very easy to get the hang of using! I quickly adapted to using the camera and working out the iMovie software we were given to use, and I very much enjoyed every moment of preparing, filming and editing both our preliminary task and main task, although I took extra pleasure in our main task 'Prey' because of the inputs I put into it and the fact our storyline was mostly based upon one of my initial ideas. Although I knew quite a lot about filming before, I definitely learnt a great deal throughout this process such as finding the most realistic approach in order for our film to look professional such as eliminating as much talking as possible because our actors and actresses were not pros therefore I felt it made it seem amateur. I also liked coming up with new interesting ways to film something such as when Elliot walked down the ladder from the attic. A few shots were suggested but everyone liked this idea of mine the most and I really think this stood out in our film because it showed Elliot was the dominant one in the situation. I think Claudia, Ellen, Tilly and I worked well as a group most of the time, but next year I would like to do it with just one other person as I felt there was a sense of competition throughout the course and a few cases of others saying that my ideas were they're own etc. Tilly and I worked well and efficiently together, which is why we did a joint evaluation. As we didn't have much time left to do it we felt this would be the best option in order to do our best. I have really loved this whole experience and I am more than pleased with our final outcomes.

Here is the poster I made for our main task 'Prey'. We hope you like it!