Connor Walker

The first and hopefully last time these guys respond to an emergency
After knocking a boy unconscious, an incompetent boy is third wheeled by 2 practicing first aiders as he does his best to help, only just to embarrass himself.

This was my third film, and also the first time I very strictly stuck to a script. Anthrophage had a script but it was more of a guideline for the dialogue and a sequence of events, and TUNA didn't have a script at all and was entirely improvised, so this was a very different experience, especially as I did not write the script myself. This was also a step up with how many people there were in the film, originally there was 4 but after an accident I had to step in for one of the roles. The film was slightly rushed, and we did have to shoot the entire thing twice. We stuck to the script quite well with only some improvised changes, for my most ambitious film, its probably my least favourite so far, but I have learnt a lot from it and used new techniques I am proud of. I had a much better time directing and I think the acting because of that was pretty solid. I think the editing went quite smoothly with the film, and I think most of the camera work was also quite solid. Sometimes the camera was quite shaky when doing tracking shots (I was not holding the camera as I had to fill in last minute) so I wish that could have been more prepared for that. The sound is the biggest flaw by far. Because of the last minute changes, we had to use the bigger room that had more echo, whereas we used a corridor in the first take which sounded a lot clearer. I did not expect it to be as bad as it is, and I have fully learnt my lesson and I aim to try get much higher quality audio for my next films. I am quite happy with the extra sound however. I added a lot of extra sound effects which blended into the scenes quite well, and I think the phone calls were really strong.
I have decided to remove the completed version as it does not represent my filmmaking skills.