The Hunger Games – Finished Film and Evaluation

The original film:

The Re-edited film with techniques included:

Feedback from my film was informative as to what i must do to improve the overall look of my films in the future. Comments such as the criticism of the tracking shot came because of it being too shaky due to the type of cameras being used, meaning that whilst it didn’t necessarily work in this film, it could work in the future with a different camera or appropriate equipment. One of the major points made was not to film against a window in the future as the door opens as it means the figure in frame becomes too dark. Another comment was the disposal of any shots that are partly out of focus. This wasn’t a major problem in our film as there were only a small few shots that were affected but this number should be minimised to none in my next project. The last improvement was not to zoom in during a shot which isn’t something that I had originally wanted to do but my project partner Sam thought that it might look good. Unfortunately it didn’t but it is something to learn from for our next film.

I believe the film was mostly successful because we were as a group able to utilise new editing techniques that we hadn’t experimented with before which meant the cinematography we used was experimentative and whilst not a complete success in some elements such as the jump cut, they have allowed a good starting point for improvement.