Evaluation

For this assignment we were required to make a promotional video for a client, the promotional video had no limitations as to what it could contain, it was all based off of what the client wanted within his video. As this was out first promotional video we had to adapt the way we worked, if we saw something better but the client wanted to keep the original then we would have to accommodate our ideas to their say. 

To keep within the given timescale we were always one step ahead with the schedule and always had a back up incase the client was unable to comply to our time schedule, before the initial shoot we had several meetings and phone calls to reassure the filming dates, deadline dates and meeting dates, all of these were essential and we were in constant contact with the client to make sure these were secured dates. 

For the promotional video we encountered several problems, one of the main problems was that there was only one date available for filming, this wasn't a problem but it caused a lot of stress as we needed to hire equipment and if we were unable to retrieve this equipment then we would've had bad problems, luckily the filming went very smoothly for us and we had no problems. Another problem was that there was no budget, and finding something like a copyright free soundtrack can be difficult, we over come this by contacting artists from YouTube that create copyright free music and got their permission to use a soundtrack. One other problem would be that the house in which i would be filming had no power sockets that were working, therefore lighting would be very difficult, to achieve good lighting i shot at around 11-12 during the day and made sure the exposure and ISO settings were correct on my camera, in the final draft of the promotional video i achieved good quality lighting. 

The finished product was good, but it could've been more organized and better planned, this is because there was a very small time scale to produce the video because the client was so busy, this meant accommodating the level of detail to the clients time scale; so if i had more time i thick i could've produced a higher quality video. Personally i think having a client that is not knowledgeable of what they want opens a whole spectrum of problems, as having to guess what they would like can be very difficult, luckily our client liked our video. 

The feedback we received from our client was very positive, we also received good feedback from social networking sites, below is a copy of the email from our client.