First I will start looking at the mistakes.

– What I didn’t do was have a clapper or shout out the take of each scene before shooting it, so it was quite a challenge to sync with audio coming from the zoom microphone and the footage, especially when I took simular if not identical takes of the same shot numerous times.

– I would have had a boom pole for my microphone. On the medium close-ups audio was fine but when I was shooting longer shots, the microphone was just as far away from the actors as the cameras microphone is/was, which pretty much rendered it useless.

-In the final product there is the scene where the characters are talking on a bench. I felt as though this scene as covered very poorly. I only shots of each actor delivering there lines, to the other actor (out of shot) replying out of character. This meant the conversation between the two was doomed from the start, the conversation never flowed, it definitely looked like two actors practicing lines to a guy standing slightly to the left/right of the camera, as a consequence the scene looked jerky, which not even my editing skills could truly fix. If I was to shoot this again, I would have had one tight shot of the two actors on the bench, with the two actors delivering the scene together, fully in character, both clearly in shot. Then to be safe I would repeat the shots I did end up doing, but I would have the actors delivering lines to each other in character, with the actor out of shot performing like he was in the shot-by doing this I get a more naturalistic scene, truer scene.

Doing that hand held track shot that made up the first minute of the film, I should have held the camera on my shoulder in order to stabilise it, instead of holding it in a way that made it ‘dangle’ in the air. I thought some of the movements were a bit jerky.

There was too much background noise on the audio tracks.

Positives

I felt as though the framing was quite good, in the tracking shot I kind of lost it in places, but it was mostly pretty ok. I potentially could have made it a bit tighter.

I thought the darker exposure complemented the setting-if you were to take images from my film they would look quite picturesque, the greens and the browns looked really nice.