Evaluation of short film

Overall I think that the production process went very well and I am pleased with how my short film has turned out, over all of the shoot days that I attended I took on the roles of director and D.O.P which I believe I completed pretty successfully with some small mistakes. One thing that I would do next time is be more careful when checking the framing of shots to make sure that there is nothing that could possibly compromise the shot and make it look unprofessional. On many occasions during the editing process I noticed things that I had not noticed during the set up of the shots. For example on a couple of occasions a camera bag can be seen in the back of some shots, during the interrogation scene and restaurant scene are examples of when this had happened. Another thing that went wrong during the production was small issues with the continuity. During one of the shoot days one of our actors forgot to bring the correct shoes that they had worn on a previous shoot day. This meant that during one of the shots it was very clear that the character was wearing different shoes. I had told all of the actors to ensure that they wore the same costume but things like this happen sometimes and we had to continue with the shoot as scheduled. Although that this was out of my control it is still a little bit annoying. During one of our shoot days we had to film in a darkened room with limited light only coming from 1 set light. In this room there was a window and due to the dark conditions when looking through the view finder/screen of the camera you were unable to see any kind of reflections. Me and my D.O.P both checked this to ensure that we would not be seen, however during the editing process whilst reviewing the clips you could see clearly both myself the D.O.P and the camera within the refection of the window. Next time when filming scenes that require low lighting I will set up the camera whilst the room is lit fully and check all of the reflections then, just incase the brightness is slightly different when we come to review our footage on a computer during editing. Another thing to check during filming is framing in regards to the actors and making sure that they are fully in shot  without their heads being cut off at all. During my time as D.O.P there was a couple of shots were this happened due to the actors moving around and me not re-adjusting so next time I will ensure that the actors do not leave the frame at all.