Evaluation by Tom Lawrence

during the filming process i learned that everything has to be the same in every shot, which was very difficult because using playing cards they had to be the same in every shot. also i learned that you have to be consistent in every shot, shooting the same shot many times because if not then the scene looks scrappy and unprofessional, also using the 180 degree rule was a challenge because we started filming without thinking of it then once we watched it we discovered that we had to redo it.

Ays and i were in charge of finding where we should film and that was a huge responsibility because if the place was wrong then the filming would be too, so after hunting around for over an hour we found a small room which worked perfectly, we were aiming at a small room with a circular table, making it look like a gambling table.

I was the directer of the piece, this was a challenge because i had to write a script for the piece, adding in character movements and verbal direction, also i had to tell an actor that we used what his motive was, what his back story was and what his mindset was. also creating the story of the film from scratch was difficult because you had to be very creative and specifically say what you wanted.

During the editing i learned that you have to be patient with the footage, watching it many times and deciding which shot is the right shot for the film, because when a shot didn't work we had to pair it up with different shots, making sure it made sense. also i discovered that holding the card up before every shot is important because in some shots we didn't know where it went in the sequence.

at the start we tried using a red head however it looked horrible in our room so we took it out and used the ceiling lights, which worked allot better because the red head only lit parts of the room and created shadows and even when we put different gels on it it still didn't look right.

i would defiantly improve my personal directions because although i did write a script, i personally don't think it was as good as i am capable of, also i would work on different lighting in the piece because we tried to incorporate a "gambling atmosphere" by having an overhead light but i didn't know how to create that so we left it out.