Reviewing Our Footage

This is our footage, after filming on our scheduled Wednesday at our initial Cafe, we went over our footage and decided it was unusable. The exterior footage we were happy with but reviewing the footage from inside didn't look how we planned it to. This meant we had to go and find a different cafe to utilise. Luckily Lauren works in a cafe in Bungay, so we plan to drive out there on Feb 1st, and make up for the filming we had lost out on.

What Went Wrong & Improvements

Lighting - When we attempted to film a section in the dark, we didn't have enough lighting to cover and reflect onto the scene which we were filming. This made it very difficult to film, and when looking over the scene's, could not see much at all. Despite not being able to see anything, some of our inter- references were linked to scenes in the dark, if we did ours really badly, I felt it wouldn't qualify for that. To combat this, the cafe that we have chosen, has low lighting which in effect, if we try and get the right angles, we can use to look like the lights have been turned off. Also we have a light reflector which hopefully will be useful when filming this scene.

Characters - I think our female character was suitable, she was young, and naive looking. However our problem came from our male lead. He was tall dark and dark haired but I think too young. We needed an older man, unshaven and thug like. To overcome this, we will be using Laurens Dad, he has agreed not to shave for a few days, this will create the reugged look. He is also older than our initial actor, so it will overcome that problem.

Costume - The continuity of our costume was not consistant, there is a scene where he was wearing the hat and then not wearing the hat. This will affect our grade as continuity plays a part in that. I think that was the only problem with our costume. So on Feb 1st, we will be using simular costumes but making sure the continuity of the hat is kept consistant.

Shots - Despite using a range of different shots, we managed to achieve only mid-shots. To enable us to achieve higher marks on our practical aspect, we needed to shoot more close-ups, also this keeps the male character more annonymous which keeps the tension up throughout the opening.

Hopefully when we film for a second time we can take into account what we did wrong the first time and really tryto combat these problems and not make the same mistake again. As long as we are prepared and know exactly what we have set out to achieve, then we should have stable footage.