Evaluation – Verbatim Film:

As a production team, creating a Verbatim Film, we

managed to incorporate themes of “Road” by Jim
Cartwright into the final Product.
Addressing topics such as: eating disorders, mental
health and loss in our individual performances of
Verbatim Transcripts.
An aim of our group was to portray these characters
individually onscreen however connect them in the
film by their similarities which was their sadness and
reflection of the past.
As practitioners and filmmakers, we achieved this by
creating a rotating order in which the characters
appear on screen, sharing a part of their stories, this
engages the viewer by the film seeming to have a
faster pace.
As filmmakers we ensured that we captured different
establishing shots for each individual character, to
highlight their individuality and separate personal
story.
Overall, as a production company we were effective in
all contributing to the filming process by shooting A-
roll and B-roll and expressing different ideas to the
group.
However, work wasn’t completed evenly within the
and as a practitioner I felt as though I was assigned a
larger workload than others in the group, in Pre-
production creating a shot list, a storyboard, and
organising test shots, as well as editing the separate A-
roll, B-roll and being given a large role in the editing of
the overall film, this meant that there was a large
amount of pressure put upon me as a practitioner to
ensure as a team we reached the deadline.
An improvement for the next time we work as a group
would to be at the start of pre-production to create a
list, issuing an equal amount of work between the
production team.