Finito

Apologies for the long gap between this and the last post, but after the christmas break we found ourselves hard at work adding the finishing touches to our sequence. We have now, however, finished so I thought that it would be a good idea to express my views on it. Overall I am extremely pleased with our film opening as it is of a fairly high quality considering we are only school students. There appear to be now continuity issues with our sequence and the match-on-actions are faultless. It may overun slightly over the time specified, however, it does not drag on and flows nicley. I will not say too much more as I do not want to ruin my evaluation, so I will conclude now that I believe our film opening could not have been any better considering the setbacks we faced with our previous idea.

Re-shoot Reflections

Our Re-shoot went well on Monday Night as we got all we needed to get done in a relatively short period of time without having to compromise or cut corners. After our actors were ready we began the painstaking process of setting the detectives desk up exactly the same as on the previous shoots to avoid continuity problems. After we completed the inside shots we ventured outside and began to set up the lighting equipment which we are now accustomed to. We shot what we needed and managed to finally get a good shadow on the wall for our climax shot. One problem that we encountered was that the floodlights were on in the park next to the alley and hadn't been on the previous weekends. This means that the lighting is slightly different on the shots we captured from yesterday. We believe, however, that this can easily be fixed by fiddling around with the Lighting effects tool on Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Re-Shoot Reflections

Our Reshoot went very well and we managed to obtain all of the shots that we needed to perfect. We always took a few new ones so that we had more options while in the edit suite. One problem that we noticed was the change in light outside as the floodlights were on on the playing field. This should be able to be fixed when editing though.

Efficiency is Key

I believe that we worked faily efficiently over the weekend and this is shown by the fact that we managed to get takes of all the shots in our sequence. We had a few giggles along the way but the main thing is that we reached our target. Next time as a word of warning, I think that It would be wise to wear multiple pairs of socks as it is only a matter of time until one of us is ridden with frostbite.

1st Shoot Weekend Reflections

Although that this should be our second shoot weekend it has turned out to be our first due to previous problems. This, however, drove us to try extra hard to get all of the footage we need to edit next week. We went on late into the night and did well to keep the camera steady in the bitter cold. It was, however, a very successful shoot and has got us back on track.

Pleased!

I am pleased that our project is now back on track after our location setbacks. The new idea is simpler, but still has the same level of tension and impact. We have included lots of different techniques which should help us gain marks. We should also have no problems with location as it is at Nick's house. Fingers crossed our problems are behind us and we shall be able to push forward and create a masterpiece of filming.

New Idea Reflections

Although I was very fond of our previous idea, 'The Streets Run Red', due to location difficulties we have had to draw up a totally new idea. 'The Case' is a lot simpler than its predecessor, but this could work in our favour by being easier to produce. There should be no obvious problems with the location as it is Nick's house so everything looks in place. Overall I am very pleased with this new idea considering we thought of it in one evening.