What could i have done differently?

I could have easily spent another week on the film constantly going over the film many times, to make sure everything was absolutely fine. I feel i did this well enough but i had other work commitments and after a long edit process (over 3 weeks) i felt i had come to the end, and could no longer work on this without bringing myself to complete exhaustion, and therefore no time to revise for my exams.

What could i have done differently? The film had taken many changes over the course of its pre production but still ended up very much as i had envisaged the film, i guess mainly from the editing that i had done to make it so.

There were a few parts that looking back with Maria, my tutor i could have changed. With the FIFA scene she said she wasn't too sure on what the game is and i could have included some shots of this. To be honest i hadn't tried, as out of experience the shot has waves rippling across the screen. I could have changed this easily but the edit was too far in.

I think with an extra five minutes of film time it could have been made a lot clearer in parts and more informative with narrative and interviews, but obviously there was a time restriction so i made best what i could do.

On my original edit the scavenge and hunt had been over 4 minutes each so this was cut down a lot. I could have spent a long long time deliberating what to leave and out, a process which could have taken many days, but i was quite brutal on my approach to it and if something didn't work so well then it was cut.

The only few mistakes i found within the film were a few very subtle bits of continuity, notably there s one occasion were for a brief second one can see i am wearing different trousers and at the hunt scene one can see the beer levels fluctuate a bit as it was done over the course of 2 hours, and for the tribe the beer was flowing.

I had until the end been keen to record the didgeridoo and djembe for the opening sequence and credits. However using the equipment i had i felt the sound quality was not as good as it could be. The didgeridoo emits huge low frequency waves and a massive wall of bass tone which either completely override the equipment, so one gets this huge wall of sound, or if one is further away there are two many background noises. I needed to go to a music studio, and these were close for easter. A bit disappointing as i was looking forward to doing it but a minor blip really. My friend Jess downloaded a plethora of digeridoo recordings and i chose a suitable one, to exoticise the tribe. The track uses at the start was a low drone which gave the opening sequence an air of mystery and the end was more lively...more "allegro" as you wish to give the ending, though the presenter is dispirited, a jovial esque edning

Other then that i was very happy with the outcome.The pilot had been a bit disappointing as the color was exported badly and was a bit haphazard, though this was to engage in understanding the technique of how my final film would be made. The film had been a stressful process to film, but once i was hocked up in the edit suite i found much of the process very relaxing