Overall View of the Project

This experience of making a film opening for a thriller has given me the opportunity to learn invaluable truths about: myself and how best I work, working as part of a team, and it has given me an insight into the industry of film-making and all that goes into it such as filming, film music, editing etc.

About myself, I've learnt that I am good at using technology as I picked up on how to use the software Final Cut Pro, quickly and efficiently. This enabled me to maximise its use in the making of my film.

Working in a group has taught me the importance of sharing responsibilities but it also taught me how unrealistic it is to believe that all team members would share equal responsibility and work load. However, as the thriller opening is the work of the 'team' and not the individual, I found myself pulling more weight than others in my team, although, I should add, I did have the assistance of one member in my group. Nonetheless, I am thankful that it all came together in the end and having the extra stress of more work gave me a taste of what is to come in the 'real' world.

This brings me on to my next point. This project has made me realise that I would like to have further involvement in such works of film making and editing. This has shown me the commitment and patience required, such as the long hours that this work called for and the less-than-cooperative group members, but the finished product is encouraging and only reiterated that the effort was not in vain. I thoroughly enjoyed this task.