After the struggle we had filming our last shots, we changed the location and the cast, and re-filmed all of the footage. I think the shots turned out better than they did previously and we had more of an idea about what was expected of us from these filming sessions. We still need to complete/re-film about 3 shots, but this is most of our footage.
I think the range of shots that we used has improved and our skills with the camera have definitely improved. I am a lot happoer with this shoot, and prefer the use of shots in comparison to the other one.
Definitely an improvement but be more subtle with your tilt shots. Also when the girl steals the money from the till you need to make this deed very clear and shoot a closeup of her pocketing the money. You could during the edit cut from the girl taking the money to the man, then cut back to the theft, then cut back to the man to connote the possibility that he saw her take the £10 note.
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ReplyDeleteYou have shot some very strong footage, particularly:
• Close ups, high angle and tilt…but some too tilted
• Money being taken out of the till
• Pouring hot water
• Man stirring and drinking coffee
• Shutting the bolt
• Good lighting
• Keep original footage of man walking to café the frontage is splendid, when editing you can cut from this footage to the girl serving or the two girls talking – this footage was elegant
• Nice performances by Emily and Lauren. You could do more, even Alex participating and coming in as if girl’s boyfriend, he looks at his watch and leaves, thus leaving the waitress isolated……or the possibility that he is colluding with man with hat. (Your choice)
Little weaknesses:
• Tilts a little too extreme!!! Be careful of this – be much more subtle
• You have a close up of the girl taking the money but you need to cut to the girl putting the money in her pocket or bag (pocket would be more convincing, so that more is made of this flaw in her character/deviance – it adds a good twist