Today we critically reviewed the footage that we have edited, but even though we really like some specific shots (the low angle track in the kitchen for example)overall, neither of us felt it truely show cased our ability and potential.
What we plan to do...
Therefore we have decided to do an entire re-shoot of our opening (I understand that this sounds very risky but WE WILL pull it off and I think we will all regret our decision if we choose to stick with our current footage)
The openning will follow the same plot of the original but I think we need to make it much more visually dynamic by including more of a variety of complex shots and angles.
We also found that our openning was far too short, so we have decided to draw in another flashback which will allow us to build up more of a backstory and add to the mounting tension.
After deciding on this rather radical path of action, our group had a new lease of life and a burst of creative energy. We managed to brainstorm a number of exciting ways to incorporate titles; draft in a new, 'older' actor (Roisin's Dad) to make the Thriller appear more mature, serious and realistic; and find an alternative to the voice recording as we never realised that the sound quality would be comprimised through using the dictaphone.
So what now?
We are keeping the same locations, so we don't have to carry out any additional research or location scouting. We also intend for the weather, costumes, props and majority of the mise-en-scene to remain identical to our original. Therefore we have less pre-production work to do giving us more time to get stuck into filming!
It is my responsibility to draw up the storyboards to incorporate the shots that my group want, and these will be completed by the end of tomorrow (Friday) and will hopefully be on the blog by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.
Our group has organised a whole day (Wednesday the 17th) during half term in which we can all be present for the filming process. We plan to dedicate the ENTIRE day (9am-4pm) and we are confident that this is more than enough time to capture everything we want.
People may see this move as a bad or risky choice but our group is united in the idea that this will work; and will work ten times better than anything we could have achieved with our original openning.
And also, if all of the film we get on Wednesday is for some reason unusable, we will always have the original to go back to, and will therefore be no worse off than we would have been if we decided not to film in the first place.
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