Unit 3 - Construction

After a discussion, me and my group decided that the genre that we were to undertake was a thriller. We did this genre because it was something that we all enjoy and believed that we could make a good film. As a group, we decided that we would base our film around a poker game, with a clear protagonist and an antagonist. After, getting all the appropriate equipment, we filmed the poker match with each character arriving. The editing was done by Matt Game who put all of our good shots together and cut out the out-takes. There was not much standing in the way of our filming as we had the correct crops, setting and script in order to make our film simple but effective. We did endure one problem in that when we put the film together in the editing as we noticed that some of our shots were inadequate, such as in one, the camera wire was showing in the bottom corner of the shot. Also, another problem is that we all needed to be free in order to film the film, which meant that we only had one opportunity to complete all the filming.

I was nominated as cameraman for the filming but by the end of the film, I included myself as a minor character in the film. My role was simple and I believe that I carried well but could of done much better, such as when the camera wire was in the bottom of the screen, that could of been avoided.

As for our actual shots, we didn't really encounter any major problems, other than wrong camera-shots, bad acting and a increasingly low battery, which meant that our filming time had to be cut short, as we could not film outside due to there being no electrical mains being outside.


With our soundtrack, we were originally going to make our music ourselves with Sheridan knowing how to play the piano. However, due to the amount of time that we had left by this stage, we decided that we were to do this on the computer, using GarageBand. We went for a jazz type music which sounded great, but when we edited it into our film, it didn't mix well with our dialogue, which spoilt it slightly. I believe that it was too fast for our dialogue, and slightly too loud.
Overall, our construction of our film was OK but could have been better. But for the budget that we had which was virtually nothing, wen coped well.