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Critique Reflection

 Something that I feel we accomplished successfully was the acting and blocking of the shots. Our location helped a lot because of how extremely accurate it was to the actual location in the film. Another thing that we did well was the use of a tripod, which allowed us to have very stable shots throughout the scene. The white balance also remained fairly consistent from shot to shot. However, There were a lot of obstacles that got in the way of completing shooting. One of these was the zoom recorder. We were never actually able to use it in the film because everytime that we got on set it would either be dead or malfunction. A way that we might be able to fix this problem is if the sound engineer were to test the zoom recorder in the CVTV room ahead of time. This is part of what lead to having audio that was a bit off. Another problem was the shots were a bit grainy at times since we were rushing to get shots taken and weren't making sure that everything was set up perfectly.  Some of my strengths include working as a leader to keep everybody on track and on top of the present objective during filming. Another strength is that I will make sure that I am prepared to do my role on the day of shooting beforehand so there is no delay on set. A weakness of mine is that I don't allow myself to create something that isn't in its greatest form. This can slow the project down sometimes because I want it to be better than it actually can be. This has been a great exercise on knowing what needs to be focused on and fixed. Something that sticks out to me is that in future projects it is very important to know that your equipment is fully functional. This would have saved us a lot of time and possibly could have enhanced our film altogether. I can improve my strengths of leading by focusing on how everybody has an equally important role and figuring out how to specialize individuals in order to operate at maximum efficiency. What this exercise in filmmaking has taught me is that with small-scale filmmaking everybody has to wear multiple hats at all times. As a whole I think that the most important thing that I learned is that flexibility in roles, locations, equipment, and most of all ideas is what allows a film to be done well.

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