Personnal Evaluation: Callam Montgomery

Use of camera;
Our shots are entirely steady and i think this is shown very well in our finished work in all shots and camera movemment. Our shots are all framed with suitable lead and head room to all the shots, like where Chris runs having just stopped, there was plenty of room to show him running away.All characters that need to be seen can be seen clearly and if they are the focus we obeyed the rule of thirds to make them stand out. one of our shots was out of focus once we had zoomed, we need to remember that zooming means change the focus! We did use a fair amount of different shots as we have high angledshots onto peoples feet and onto the zombies, medium shots, two shots and close ups along with a few others. We obeyed the 180 degree rule we believe so the scene did not flip around, and the camera did not jump around so there was suitable movement.

Not all our shots flowed together smoothly as there was some warping around once the actors were stood in different places to where they were the shot before, however this was done on the set, the actual editing process went perfectly and all the other shots flow fine and the cuts are all in the correct places and everythings looks fine

The zombies wore normal clothes by normal people as they were once normal people, however we gave them dark clothes so that they would appear more gloomy and menacing, also that they are wearing similar colours makes them appear more to be a like a pack, so they are more menacing as they are working together. They also have bright red blood on them, this is in sharp contrast to there dark garments and is quite shocking, this is quite appropiate as they are dead so have been killed, and they kill poeople, in a very messy way so there would be blood.

The location is very secluded so makes the people seem more vunerable, there were also lots of trees around so there seemed to be no immediate way out so the danger was very imminant, however they are not in a very populated area where you would expect brain eating zombies to be, but they could of been chased there.

The actor occassionally looked at the camera which looks very strange and destroys the atmosphere, however the actors would do exactly as i said and played there parts fine and were not shy, once the actors are used to being on camera they will be fine. They also were happy to put make up on which is also quite good.

I mainly helped with placing the camera and and picking the shots, I also directed the actors exactly what to do and showed them how i wanted it done and wear they should stand and how they should stand like. I cut most of the shots together and helped decide which takes were best for the film.

We should really have been more careful of where the actors were and which way they were facing, as once inside to edit we cant change this so we should be more careful on set. We did all we could editing so the cuts and everything are fine, we could edit the sound so any background noise that isnt supposed to be there.

We will make sure poeple are in the same or similar positions to the shot before definetly next time and will make sure our actors are not so concsious of the camera, we will also give a longer time before and after the actual shot so we dont have any unwanted talking or noise.