Tuesday 4 March 2014

Feedback

When returning back from half term, we gathered helpful feedback from two of our teachers since we put a rough edit together with our footage, we only ended up using less than half of the footage that we talk as when looking at it on a clearer desktop we found noticeable errors, for example shadows. Our group has took in our teacher's feedback and ways to improve well and we will be developing our work using their ideas.

Emily: Emily suggested for us to change the first half of our title sequence as there are contrasting paces in our title sequence, she also thought that the first half of the characters getting ready were poorly shot lighting wise so our group has decided to reshoot our shots of the two characters getting ready. Emily was also keen of the music that our group selected together and thinks it works well with the thriller genre and the 'chasing / following' feel we are going for in the title sequence. She also suggested where we should place our voiceover and some extra shots we should add.

Sinead: Sinead didn't find a problem as much with the pace of our title sequence as a whole but still thinks we should reshoot some of our footage which we have now understood is understandable considering the quality and lighting change throughout the title sequence. Sinead also approved of the music choice. Sinead also suggested for the two characters having strong differences between them so the audience doesn't get too confused with what is happening.

Overall, I feel as if the feedback was helpful and we need what we need to do in order to improve our work.

Start of filming

Luckily we found some time before breaking up to film the start of our title sequence in our lesson. We only took one shot as the preparation for the setting took time to look good. We went to a teacher's conference room as it supplied most of the props which we needed for that specific shot. We decided to take shots in there for the Doctor's study, and we will need to go back there when we return to school after half term.

 
 
We then continued filming the following week and I feel like we got a lot done in 2 days, we got 114 clips altogether and I feel like most of them were successful.
 
Day 1: On our first day we went to Megan's house to film, at Megan's we filmed all the indoor shots that we needed for our title sequence. This day, we recorded Maria's pan shots and the diary and both of the characters getting ready to leave the house.
 
Day 2: On the second day we went to my house to film the remaining indoor shots and the outside shots, we decided to go to my house to film outdoors as there is a quiet close near my house with barely any passing traffic. This day we finished recording Maria's getting ready to go out shots and the tracking and point of view shots of the Doctor following Maria when she leaves.
 
Luckily the day after filming on the first day, the weather was not rainy or windy so the shots are bright and clear which our group was happy about, we needed these shots to be dark but we learned that shooting in the light and editing it to a darker time of the day would be a more effective way of taking the shots for the title sequences.