Film making evaluation

As a whole my experience creating my short film ‘Followed’ was extremely positive as I liked both members of my group and we worked well together. At the beginning there were a few disagreements about what genre film we were going to attempt to make, however this was quickly resolved as we decided to do a horror. When writing a synopsis we decided that we weren’t going to try to make anything big or new as we did not have any special effects and none of us were skilled enough to make a realistic and creepy character using makeup. For this reason we knew that our film had to be centred around something non-human, the doll. When deciding on the setting and mise-en-scene we decided that it would look most creepy at night as all of our filming was done outside with only the lights from street lamps and shop windows to make it seem more realistic. This really limited when we could film as we had to wait until it started to get dark before we met up to start shooting. Another issue we had was with finding actors as not many people were willing to be in our film. We managed to find two people and we started filming with them however they both dropped out meaning that two members of our group had to be in it and we had to film it all in one day. However, I feel that we worked well through it and everyone pitched in ideas when shooting and editing to ensure that all of the features in our film were executed the way we wanted them to be.