Stage 4: Evaluation. Task 10: Production Process Evaluation

I was really impressed with the way my film came together in the end. I wasn't sure if my concept was a good idea compared to other people in my classes, but once my film was edited together and had music it look a lot better to me. I found that I changed quite a lot of my original treatment because it didn't come across as well on screen as it had in my head. 
My first 2 shots (from Storyboard) were kept the same, but I did not look left to right before searching for the friends, instead I walked straight down the hall, but looked into rooms on the way to the cupboard. In my 3rd shot, I had Kimberley and Bryony hide in the cupboard together because I was worried my film was going to be too long, and Bryony mentioned the idea so I thought we could try it out, and it worked out really well.  Shot 4 was removed because of this. At first I thought shot 5 was going to look like a joke because we couldn't film it right but when I slowed it down to 40% on the computer and added music it looked really good. The rest of my film opening was the same as on my storyboard. I also removed the voices from my film which I had originally had because it didn't fit in with the tone of the film, I kept the 
"98, 99, 100. Ready or not, here I come." Though because it set the scene for the film.
If I could do somethings differently in my film I would probably not have me in it and use someone else, this is because it would be less embarrassing without me in it. I would also work on the dialogue so it could be included, I could have improved this by asking my cast to say lines in different ways while I record them and then play it back to see how it would sound on the computer.
I found Premiere Pro very annoying to use because it often wouldn't work, for example it would shut down or wouldn't save my work and it claimed that the clips didn't exist anymore. It also made my film 'skip' in places or would repeat some sections twice when it was played. Premiere also didn't play the sound always which was also very annoying. So because of these problems I had to restart my film about 4 times before it began working properly for me. When I exported my video though, it played on QuickTime with the 'skipping' and repeating it had had on the editor before I had fixed it. I had to repeat the export onto a different player (Windows Media Player) but it still did the same thing. 
Without the skipping of sections and wiggly line at the top of the screen I believe my film would have turned out really well.