Film Improvements

After we watched the first things we filmed, we used the iMovie programme to watch what we had done. We went over this with our teachers and were advised to change certain things. We also agreed with these points and made some of our own as we wanted our film to be at its highest standard. We had to reschedule this with the actors and get all of our props together. This was fine with the actors and as we were using our own locations, this was fine as well.

We went on to re-film certain parts, mostly the parts filmed in Bob Thurgood Phillips' (Bob Phillips) room as the lighting made the exposure and the reflections from the camera really odd and discoloured. The whole scene had a strong orange tint to it and made the shot look like everything was shining and reflecting light. This was because instead of using natural light we decided to use the electric, artificial lighting. As we were filming it wasn't apparent to us but when watching the clips we realised it was one of the worst filmed parts of our sequence. This is why we filmed it again one day after school. The actor was happy to do this as it only took up to an hour and he was happy to redo the scenes as we showed the previous clips and he also agreed we couldn't use them.

There was another scene in the sequence that we wanted to re-film but, the two times we tried to do it, it didn't work at all. The scene when Stacey is coming out of her front door was the worst shot we created throughout the whole piece. The shot was really over exposed and her costume really didn't help as she had a light pink t-shirt on and very light, blue jeans. When we filmed the first time we filmed it out of the front door we were supposed to use. This really didn't work and the actor just disappeared when she went over the white door frame.

Instead we tried it on a different day and using a different door. The sun was still quite bright and we tried different angles - even experimenting with blocking the light with umbrellas and big wooden boards. This didn't help much as the shot is still over exposed and this is a shame as its quite noticeable in our final opening and brings it's quality down slightly but we did all we could have done without cutting out the shot.

Emily Wallace