Finally Finished!!!

The Hangover project is finally complete! My groups video will be uploaded shortly.

Thankfully, we have finally finished our project and managed to complete it by the deadline too. But only just!

What have i learnt from this experience?

I have learnt that it takes a lot of time to get the shots right. When filming a scene you need to make sure you've got it from the right angle, that there isn't anything that shouldn't be in the background, that everything is in the right place and that the actors say/do the right things and repeating shots over and over again to get different angles and to make it perfect. Not to mention making sure there isn't any out of place background noise and this all takes so much time. In your plan you need to allow for this time incase something goes wrong, idealy planning to have a finished cut a couple of days before the deadline.
Also, editing it all together takes so much time too. It can be extremely frustrating sometimes when something doesn't do what you want it to do as we found out in this project. However, now we are much more familiar with the software, hopefully next time we will be able to use it better.
Doing this project, we faced many problems. Problems such as:

• finding enough/any actors
• finding the right props
• finding the time for us all to do it together.

It was so difficult to find people to be in the film. It literally got down to the last minute before someone said yes in the case of the character Phil and for the Bride. However we did have a back up plan- one of us could do it. But we thought it would look much less effective if we did that. Finding props was quite difficult too, finding props that looked the same was very difficult so we had to settle for props that looked relitively like the ones on the film. But overall, i think we did a very good job with that. Also, finding a time for us all to be able to help out was extremely difficult. We all had different timetables and we all had different commitments but we managed to find one day for us all to participate to get most of the filming done.
Overall, I really enjoyed doing this project. I had a lot of fun whilst making it and learnt a lot about working in a group, the editing software and how much time it takes just to make a 2 minute opening of a film. I think it has taught me a lot to keep in mind when creating my own opening which will hopefully help me to think of a good, achievable idea and help me to avoid the problems we faced when making our version of 'The Hangover'