R+P Post 20: Reflections So Far

So far I am really happy with the way our pre-production process has gone. We were well organised through our meetings at school and we worked well as a team, which can be seen through our communication on our Facebook group page and our group chat. Our preparation for the test shoot has been extremely helpful and it shows all our effort has gone to good use. If we had not made the storyboard and animatic so detailed, we would have been less clear on what we had to do for filming, The test shoot was useful, and even though we started a bit later than our scheduled time, we managed to get back on track and so we finished on time. We had a break in between so that we did not overwork ourselves and we will repeat this for our main shoot.

We have identified errors both on set and at the edit suite which we hope to address before our main shoot. Lighting was an issue, as it was often too shadowy in the bedroom and the lighting downstairs did not match. Therefore, we decided to work with our school technician, Chris to find any solutions and we now have much more knowledge. For example, we can raise the lighting higher, to achieve the lighting effect we want and also we can set different options on the camera itself. Finally, it appeared to us that we had a couple of the jump cuts when we had finished our edit. Therefore we have decided to add in some shots, and extend some. For example, we will film Shayam going down the stairs from a step earlier.

In order for the next stage to be successful we need to continue to work efficiently and quickly as a team, especially when it comes to the edit. It is essentially for us to meet deadlines. As that we have done everything once, it should be easier.