First Shoot

This is our initial shoot, we have not cut and edited all our clips but we have started to put together our title sequence. We thought the Close Up of the typewriter worked really well and so we wanted to use this to show our titles - e.g. director/producer etc. We plan to do this in our next shoot and so have put in blank shots between each of our clips to show where our title shots will go. This gave us some idea of the overall length of our title sequence and how much we needed to re-shoot.


Most of our shots were steady, however some showed slight movements of the camera and so will need to be re-shot using a tripod. We used the rule of thirds throughout, however certain shots showed her face more centrally placed rather than over one of the points of intersection, so this is something else to work on and improve.  Lead room and head room were generally fine, however some shots showed an object within the frame in the lead room that drew your attention - e.g. the shot of our character sat at the table with a large flower drawing attention in the right of the frame. This distracts from the action and so we couldn't use this clip. We tried to use a wide variety of shots and used both eye line and high angles to show power and the characters vulnerability. Close Ups were important in showing her reactions and so we included a lot of CU's which worked well.


We have not yet edited together our piece and so we cant yet comment on the editing, however we found that we didn't have enough angles and shots for the continuity to be as clean as we hoped, so we therefore need to shoot some further footage.  We wanted to create a lot of tension by using long duration shots, while still keeping it interesting.


We were really happy with both our costume and setting and are happy with the visual appearance of both. as they are appropriate for the sub genre and work well within the story. We chose to keep the lighting quite low as we wanted to create sharp shadows to make a more unnerving look. We chose a dark colored costume to be in-keeping with the feel and genre of the film and cast an actress to conform with the stereotypes of girls being vulnerable and seen as believable victims. We wanted her a similar age to our target audience (15-30) and think this was a really good choice for this kind of character. 


Regarding our actress, some shots show her too aware of the camera and perhaps not staying in character so this is another thing to improve on our next shoot. 


Reshoot Plan - 


- Further Cu's for title sequence
- Linking shots between titles and opening scenes
- Remember rule of thirds
- Shot Reverse Shot
- Actress needs to be unaware of camera 
- Control the speed of typing