Evaluation

In retrospect, I feel like this project has been successful despite it's slight issues with actors, as I believe it has worked well at achieving the conventions of the films made by film auteur David Lynch - my biggest inspiration as a filmmaker. Personally I feel I have developed my skills, as I had the task of writing, producing and directing this myself, and so I believe I feel I have enhanced my abilities in terms of leadership and motivation in order to get the vision I had in my head when this project began. As I said during the feedback I think a few things could have been improved to the film, and I think some of the conventions could have been emphasised or included in a more obvious way had my original idea of three characters been the same. Despite this, I also think the two characters worked well because it made the scene more intense, like some of the scenes between two characters in Lynch's films. This therefore has made me more self-confident with my ability to problem solve, particularly when put on the spot, if a shoot or script idea cannot go to plan, as I know there's always creative ways to get around these problems. This in turn makes me confident for future projects I am to work on, and also more excited for them.
 If I was to improve anything when doing this assignment, I probably would have evenly spaced out the amount of time spent on each section. I spent a longer period of time on pre-production and research for example, but only a few hours shooting and about an hour's editing time. In production and post-production it took a lot less time to do than I anticipated, and so I could have spent extra time getting more footage just for extra coverage and more time totally refining the edit. I probably would have taken extra care and thought into exactly how I wanted the film to look as well; for example, although it turned out successful, most of the 'look' like the set design and lighting was done on the shoot day just from trial and error guesswork until I thought it looked reasonable. From the director's point of view I should have known really how I wanted it to look already with what I had available, particularly after writing the script.
 Overall I am happy with what I have achieved and I think it couldn't have been much better considering I had no budget, not much time, no actors and no crew readily available. I hope to continue working hard towards my inspirations and influences of the filmmaking industry in the future.