Looking Back at the Shoots...

Practice Shoot
So much went right in this shoot, the makeup, the lighting, all went very well, so much so that we did not match this level of production in shoot one. However the shoot did its job, we had lots of problems, and thats a good thing. We learnt what we had to plan for, how long everything took and why we had to follow certain procedures. Problem solving was made much easier now that we knew what the problems were. In terms of our sequence this shoot made us realise exactly how far off the mark our storyboard was, we had to add an entirely new sequence at the beginning and alter and add other shots. This is because when we captured we realised we did not establish the film enough (or at all) and that we missed some things that made our sequence difficult to understand.

Shoot One
After the practice shoot we knew what we had to do, and with a brand new storyboard we went ahead with filming our sequence. We filmed everything and got everything done within our time constraints, however when we went back to our edit suite and captured our footage we realised it had not gone well. It was not anything to do with the set, props or actors. It was not even a problem of continuity and storyboarding. In fact it had not gone that well because we just hadnt executed the technical side of things well, at all. The biggest issue was thelighting, which was not dramatic enough and left some shots flooded with light and others too dark and grainy. Shots were rushed and not very well filmed. We managed to make our shots look very amateur throughout. we knew we could do better and we knew we had to reshoot almost everything.

Shoot 2
In this shoot everything finally came together, we were able to film everything and nothing went horribly wrong like in previous shoots. Lighting was fine, camera work was much improved and we didnt miss any shots. This was by far the most productive shoot as this is where we filmed most of our footage. When we then captured and edited our footage we were happy with how our sequence was coming together, with the exception of a few shots it was all looking good.

Shoot 3
This was a very minor shoot, so we only designated half a session for it. The aim was to reshoot a handful of shots which we felt were not adequate. This shoot ran smoothly and was as productive as we needed it to be.

Now we're back from holidays and have continued our editing process and finishing touches to our sequence. We have started quickly and already found music and decided on things like titles and some final editing choices. we still need to brainstorm film titles for our sequence.
with only 1 big editing day left I think we can finish fine.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!
20th December 08 - 5th January 09