In my film 'The Phone Call Project' we where asked to make a short thriller film, with the duration of no longer than 2 minutes. I began filming with my partner Jordan Hewitt within school grounds.

To start us off we began drawing story boards, planning our locations which we didn't have much trouble with at first, we had a few difficulties with students cutting between our shots and also background noises such as wind when we where filming outside. We then had to start using techniqual equpitment such as a camera, editing the shots etc, which we all found difficult at first as niether myself or Jordan has had experience using the program on the computers or the camera. However as a group I believe we worked well and shared responsibilities equally. In the very beginning of the project our group was extended by 2 more people who both dropped out at last minute, whilst filming, we had also lost the tape that we had recorded on further more someone had recorded over our work, causing us to panic as the deadlines where the next day. We managed to over come this as we decided to work as a pair and ask two of our friends to act in the project which they agreed to.

Additionally in this project we used a few shots which I personally think made the short film alot more effective, these shots included: match on action fgor example when the male character exited the scene when he was outside, then came inside a building and walked up stairs; this was effective as it showed movement throught the film, if we didn't have any match on action the film wouldn't make any sense as the characters would be moving from one setting to another. We also used a reverse shot whilst characters where conversating amongst eachother this was effective because it puts the audience in the eyes of a character, we also used an 180 degree editing rule, this was so that when the characters where convresating it didn't look like they where talking to them selves.

Overall I very much enjoyed making the short film as I found it very interesting and quite exciting, I would definitely do it again although i would change a few things.I think that I Could have improved my camera shots by placing the tripod on a more leveled surface to prevent the the camera shots from shaking, I would have also used a higher quality camera (mega pixel). I would also leave the current effects as I believe they work very well with the shots but I would place some dramatic background music in the film, as this would be affective to the audience. they would automatically be able to assume that the genre of the film is a thriller.

However I also believe that the instructions in the instructions given to us could have been improved if they where more realistic, for example in a shot, two characters shake hands, we as teenagers don't shake hands, I think this would make a big difference in the project.