film evaluation

I am starting this evaluation by restating what my aims and context were since these are what I was supposed to stick to when I was making my film.
The context of my film was to have two friends travelling through the local woods together. But to save time and in my opinion to make my films horror aspects stronger I cut it down to the antagonist and the protagonist, this keeps the film simple and removes the temptation for lengthy dialogue as a film can not on its own just try and move the story along with pure dialogue this would not be entertaining and frankly the audience do not want dialogue they have come to watch a horror film to be scared and this means that the less dialogue the better.

My film also has a short flashback to avoid using dialogue to explain how the main character ended up in the middle of the woods. This flashback shows a newspaper with an old date printed on the page which at first tricks the audience into thinking that this film is set in the past but then the camera shows the main character looking at his watch which has the date included and shows what the date actually is. This is where the flashback ends and takes you forcefully back into the woods.
The aims of my film were to have an intended audience of an age group of 18-24 and people who want to be scared. I think that I succeeded in achieving this because the majority of horror films are 18s and in my opinion my film is true to the conventions of horror. My film did to some extent use the stylistics common in horror films. Although the common stylistics of the horror genre is hard to keep up since the horror genre is a rapidly evolving genre which the horror films from the 80s are now considered as thrillers.
In my opinion my film does almost fully meet the aims of my film although there are some areas were my film deviates from this such as removing the idea of two friends and just making the main character more of a loner which helps to isolate the audience since my film is called the lonely wood and in my opinion should be a recurring feature the element of loneliness through the film.

starting evaluation

i am starting my evaluation, as i can at least evaluate all of my work apart from the editing which is not finished yet. i will be evaluating my work as critically as i can, as well as making sure that i keep it as a fair analysis. the first thing that i will evaluate will be my aims and context and all of my other work related to planning since this was the first work i did for my film and it in my opinion is the most important because if you do not plan something then you can't expect to get anything good out of the final product. i will use a multitude of factors when i am evaluating my work such as how well the final film stays true to the plan, and the storyboard.

i will also be analysing changes from the original plan such as changes in the amount of characters, changes because of lack of enough actors to fill the character roles. other factors include technical problems such as the camera footage not wanting to actually work with the program chosen. i will most likely be analysing the macro and micro features of my film and my work since film language is important for a film, it is important for a film to actually have a sense of structure and film language is the backbone to a film, without it it can't be coherent the audience would not be able understand the film, in the end the film would just b a series of images unrelated to each other.

editing

i have started my edited at home using adobe premire cs4.
so far i have edited the first 2 minutes of footage, i will be uploading the footage soon.