Evaluation of AS Foundation Portfolio

My Strengths and Weaknesses of my own performance and contributions;

I believe that throughout the AS project last year, I contributed significantly towards each stage of the process.

In the research and planning stages, my blog was kept up to date throughout the year with relevant research to the project. I researched into various things such as independent production and distribution companies, film certifications, and what appears in a conventional two minute horror opening. I carried out this research and updated my blog independently, making sure that it was necessary to the project. I also contributed ideas for my group. I thought of ideas for costume, location and the storyboarding for our footage; and we discussed these ideas as a group.

In the construction stages of the task, I think that my own performance was good and I contributed towards each stage of the production from filming to editing. This was always done as a group, as we prepared and met up reguarly to check what we were doing and what time scale we had left etc. I feel that I contributed the most towards the editting of the sound; creating a piece in garage band, and researching into sounds on freesound.org. However I feel that I did not use the camera myself as much as I maybe should have. As I was the main character in the opening, I was mainly being filmed; rather than filming. I only used the camera myself properly when I was filming hand held footage. This means that I think I need more practise and to get more involved with the camera and it's functions. Also, I did not transfer the footage from the camera onto the macs - another member of my group did this. This means that I need to learn and practise on how to do this for when it comes to my music video this year.

For the evaluation stage of the project, I contributed ideas towards all seven of the questions, and helped type them up. I feel as though this was my strong point of the project; as I perform well in written work. My groups evaluation was completed and posted to my blog before the deadline, with all of the requirements fitted in.

Overall, I feel that an area of development and improvement I can take with me for this course would be to make sure I can use the camera and tripod correctly with all of their functions. Also, to improve upon using the software on the apple macs, such as importing the footage onto the macs and exporting the footage as a quicktime movie. I believe that the written work and research stages were my strongest parts of the project, therefore the main area to develop upon would be my camera skills and understanding all of the mac software needed.