Rough cut analysis

Watching the rough cut of my group's film, I am dissatisfied with the way things are going so far, but have a ton of ideas on where and how to fix mistakes, and have already started making changes.

Firstly, I noted down all of my ideas on where we need to re-shoot - this was kept as notes on my phone so I could keep updating during the holiday when I wanted to.

To go into further detail on this screenshot: I recounted the scene during which Alexis Webber was being called out to by people from his school; including the shots I had missed out accidentally during filming, and adding in extra shots and effects to make the scene look better on screen.

Also, on the last lesson before the holiday, we began to record voices with the college's Yeti, since our sound was bad, and we will be cutting all of it out in favour of completely separately recorded sound that fits with our film. Since we'll be re-shooting if my group lets me, we only did the non-diagetic sound recording (Alexis' thoughts; the narration), as we want the dialogue to match up with the movement of the actors' mouths.

I have thought about adding other sounds on top of this, for the outside scenes, for example very quiet tracks of birds singing or cars passing, but I have yet to discuss this with my group for their opinions.

I am sure that, once we add in the effects to our film, like slow-motion, and fades to black, too, it will go much smoother.

We were very efficient as a group, though; we delegated tasks like bringing equipment/props, and writing posts up, very well, and there were no real problems travelling even outside of college.
The group mostly has good chemistry, which is lucky, and everyone is willing to do their bit: Nahiyan particularly taking one for the team with the Spiderman costume, and falling into the slime.

The slime as a prop was also a questionable move - but it was pretty successful for something bought off the Internet after two minutes of Google searching, and worked effectively as a comical device that also gave to the plot.

Overall, I think there's a lot of improvement necessary, but I definitely think what we need to do is possible.