Filming: Shoot 2

For our second attempt at filming our previous experience had helped. By having two previous experiences in filming it made for are most efficient shoot yet. Areas I believe that I have improved the most in include setting up a shot or "framing" with the camera also as a group setting up the mise-en-scene has improved from our first draft to portray a more accurate representation of the emotion we wanted to show

The acting was pretty much the same time from our rough cut put there was new challenges that faced us. As seen in the image on the right on of the things we had to do was try and control a dog that featured in the establishing shot. As could be expected this was tricky but something we overcame. Again the bright midday sun was also something we had to comprise with as the camera auto-exposure would adjust itself every time the camera was moved so we had to thing carefully about camera position.

What I learnt from this shoot is that again prior planning is essential to success although you must be able to adapt to the situation at hand knowing the exact shots we wanted made for an effeicient session that produced the results we wanted


Following this shoot the main focus from me and my group is to find an appropriate non diegetic score and continue editing. So far editing is something that we have found to be a natural strength however we still need to learn and nurture skills in producing high-quality titles as the previous were below the standard.

Storyboard animatic

By creating this storyboard animatic it helped us see before filming how the continuity of clips would go and if it portrayed the meaning we wished to express. Prior planning also helped us work out other important aspects such as camera angles and timing. I created the animatic using Adobe Flash as I found being able to quickly adjust the FPS made it much easier. Although the drawings could of possibly been better and more detailed containing arrows and other directions for the camera work and also the actress we believe in this short sequence the meaning is shown to people who are unaware of our project. Unfortunately as a group we are still unable to come together a find a piece of music that fits the tone we want to portray so this is something that we will have to consider more urgerntly as deadlines approach.

Peer review

By showing the class are updated cut it helped us realise where we are and what we need to do to improve. By people unaware of what are project is about telling us how we could improve it has helped massively. One thing that we have changed after hearing the advice of offers is shortening the transition of flashback to when she starts panicking and searching for artefacts relating to her brother. What we realised was the slow build up into a sudden burst of action didn't really work so we have changed it accordingly. As well as giving constructive criticism we where also told what we had done well so we can try and make a consistent piece.