My Experience and thoughts

This project was a great adventure at the start, it was difficult to get the shots correctly, the only shot we did correctly was the whip-pan as we practiced before hand. Also because it we where so set on just getting the camera work done and over with so we can we move onto editing the footage, we just got the shots following on our storyboard, not getting a range of shots, to experiment and the consequences showed after.  Whilst filming, it all felt like a long process, also because we were in the middle of winter and the weather was very cold and breezy. When we went to the city to shoot the whip-pans, it was snowing, so it was very hard working on the camera with burning cold hands. However, because of the weather and our tight-schedule we could not get various restaurants of different cultures, hence, having street cafes and bakeries, which were also a little bumpy whilst whip-panning. We couldn’t get the restaurants we wanted because of timing and other subject work and curfews, also the distance and time to get to our destination.

On the other hand, when we where shooting on the riverside, it was very hard to get the actresses expression because of the barrier. So most of her expressions where side shots and because of the sun behind her face, her body was made a faint silhouette making it difficult to see her expression.

Editing was only difficult when editing footage that wasn’t shot properly and editing with footage of few range of shots. Also, it lacked in different editing, which could’ve been put in easily, for instance, eye line match,action match or graphic match. Despite the fact that our first draft didn't develop to be how we pictured it, it opened our eyes on where we went wrong. So we were set on getting all the shots needed and making sure our original idea's were still intact, nevertheless, still trying different shots on each frame and it came to great use when editing because when one thing didn't look right, we could change or cover it with something else. 
We also used voice-over for the first time, when we did your practise run it sounded fine, however, we did realise that we will have to time it with the edited footage. But the problem was when we recorded our voice over for our rough edit and it came our with an echo, so for our final edit we had to tweek wih the program to get it normal with no effect and was much better.
Music was another adventure also, I couldn't find the right song, I knew i definelty wanted to have a piano playing, if not it being just a solo, because of the research I've done on the drama genre and that was the best way to go. However, everything that we chose seemes abit too depressing or too happy or even held a fantasy feeling. That's what our first music choice delievered, the genre of fantasy, which was completely different to what we wanted our music to signify. We wanted it to establish the genre and soon we found a fitting song, we just had to cut parts off and add specific parts of the music to get it just right.
Overall, I think our project was abit unusual, our first draft was much more different to the the storyboard and then the final edited video was sticking to the storyboard only adding a few extra action match and some natural transitions. Now, we only wait for the feedback and see what our audience thought of it.

Farjana [Reshma] Rahman