Completed short film

Reflecting on my finished short film, along with comments given from my classmates, I am overall very pleased with the response and comments that my short film had. in both my opinion and classmates opinion, it proved to be a very informative piece that flowed well and was interesting. I had comments of it being framed well and being visually enticing with regards to interviews and the montage, and that it had a good balance between the funny vox pops that were informal and the interviews that had more a professional stance and were more formal.

Technically throughout the levels were mainly consistent apart from at the end where I had a glitch in the audio being slightly louder than the person that was speaking.However the cuts of the shots and the blending of the audio were seemingly timed well and the shots were framed in an interesting way, having a more visual impact on the audience.

Aesthetically my piece was colourful and the interviews all had a similar colour to them created by the lighting that was used. Some shots needed colour correction because of the lighting conditions when filming being poor, however everything was visible and worked well with the content of my piece. Usually i would use a consistent style and am being fond of shots being black and white or desaturated, however with this piece I believe the natural colours and lighting work well because some shots that are very colourful juxtapose well with shots that are quite bland and have no variation in colour.

My film is 7 minutes long so immediately conforms to one of the codes and conventions of short film by not being feature length. It is of a documentary style which comes under the spectrum of short film, and is subject specific. My film does not have a specifc target audience because that is not how short film works; the content is very subjective and really would only be of interest to a select amount of people, however could potentially be of interest to those who I would never have aimed my film to. I personally think that if I had to give my film a target audience it would be for those who love heavy metal music through all ages or for those who are studying either anthropology or things music related, as it is both about culture, the way people think, and the music that creates a culture within people.

Things that could be improved in my piece and that people would have liked to have seen are as follows:
*A voiceover or concluding sentence at the end summarising my findings of why people love or hate metal.
*I think I could have interviewed someone who is solely against the genre of rock and metal, perhaps someone religious who stereotypes metal as being associated with the devil or bad things.
*Also slight technical glitches such as levels of some music that could be toned down.
*Also more shots of my granddad actually drumming and saying more about the subject.

As I have produced this film on my own I believe I have achieved an awful lot in the amount of time given as I have managed to film interviews, cutaway footage, and edit the whole film by myself. I think that the organisation of the whole process was done quite well and that almost everthing went to plan. I would have liked to have gained more interviews from established industry persons such as the manager of Spinefarm who unfortunately I couldn't get due to him being on a tight time schedule. However I still aim to continue this project and expand on it.