What have i learnt when creating a film?

We were given a task to split into small groups of 3-5 people and create a swede version of a popular film, A swede is a low budget remake of a well known film. We had to plan the setting, actors and props in which we had one week to get this organised. The main aim of this task was to help us understand how to learn the basics of creating a film, 
from planning the film and then actually filming it. 

When we had decided who was in what groups we had to plan our film and decide what film we were going to do, my group choose The Hunger Games. Once we discussed what film we were doing we had to plan it, since we had no budget we would have to make our own props or bring them from home. We then had to plan who was going to bring in the props and who needed them in the film. After that was sorted we needed to decide how many people were going to star in the film so we discussed how many actors we may need to use and when they were going to be available to film. We also had to think about the setting of the film for where it was going to be shot, we decided on one overall location of the back of our school field as The Hunger Games is mainly filmed outside it was pretty much decided straight away. Once all the this was done it was the matter of figuring out a story-line for our film but because of the time limit we mainly did this on the day of filming.

Before we went out to film we had to discuss risk assessments on what could go wrong while filming and then what we could do to prevent these risks from happening and also we discussed how to use the equipment properly. Some of the main risks that came up were tripping over things, falling over and getting the equipment damaged. We then created some ideas on how to avoid these problems, firstly we said how to avoid falling or tripping this was by everyone agreeing that you should be aware of your surroundings and aware of other people. We then discussed how to work the equipment properly and safely, this meant we would learn how to use the camera properly and how to use the tripod legs for the camera. This helped while walking around to be safe and while filming to help us get them better the best shots we could, Within our group we used a wide variety of shots like close ups, mid shots, long shots and panning.

Finally we had to make sure we were on time. We struggled with this as while we were filming our camera ran out of charge so this meant that we had a large amount of time lost when trying to film, luckily we went back and used a spare one but this meant we were struck for time and we had to be quick to film it. Another problem was getting all the actors at the same time as some were were busy and came late which again meant we didn't have much time to film.

Overall I think our film was a success considering all the problems we faced when trying to film.