Details of any Re-Shoots

Details of any Re-Shoots:

A lot of filming took place over a short period of time, we wanted to try and get a lot done on each day of filming, meaning we had more time to edit the film, and come back to Take care of any mistakes and reshoot that we needed to do. Although we tried to get as much done in a short time, we still tried our best to keep it to the highest quality. We expected our work to have more mistakes in than it actually had, and to our relief, there wasn't much throughout the film that that needed drastically changing. As filming days went on, we kept editing our film, keeping up with what we had filmed so we could get a clear image of where we were up to in the whole project. This way we could get a rough cut uploaded to quicker so we could get feedback on our film.

There was however a few scenes in our film that needed a bit of tweaking and shaping in order to sharpen up. Scenes such as these needed slightly changing as we weren't happy with the quality we produced.

 These scenes included:

- The Car Scene (The Character Tom gets run over)

- The Thought Sequence in the Park

The Car Scene:

The first time we filmed the Car Scene, we thought that the shots we filmed were that of a decent standard, and that we could get back to the computer and edit them straight away, which we did. But during the editing stage of this scene, we unanimously agreed that these shots were no where near the quality we wanted. The scene is meant to portray Tom (played by Connor) running out into the road and getting hit by a car (driven by Ben). As we obviously couldn't actually perform this task in real life, we had to film a number of clips that would be matched with different editing techniques that would make the scene seem as realistic as possible. The shots we filmed included Close ups of Connor's face, over the shoulder shots of Ben driving, and shots from the side of the road. We tried our best to fit these shots together while editing, but no matter what we tried, it didn't look 'right'. We all agreed on the fact that the entire scene didn't correctly portray what it was meant to, so we decided to start again. We all spoke about the scene over a dinner time, and brainstormed other ideas and shots we needed to include. Shots including a close up of ben, ben slamming the brakes on and trying to turn out of the way. We agreed that adding these shots matched With fast paced editing would create the better illusion that Connor is getting run over, as there are more shots to fill in time to make the car look like it is getting closer. After agreeing on what we needed, we went out the following Wednesday after college to film the scene again. As we knew everything we needed, it seemed to work a lot better, as we completed all the shots very quickly, and as you can see from our film, the final effect of the scene works much better.

The Park Scene:

This scene, filmed in the park outside of college, is part of the thought sequence and is all based inside the head of Connor. We knew that this scene would be hard to portray to the audience what was happening in this scene, but while focusing on getting every shot and every part of the scene right, we completely forgot silly little details throughout the scene, they seemed to slip past us and what we were doing. The 2 examples of this being, when the scene cuts to Elliot, he still has his college lanyard and badge on show. After watching the shots back, we all couldn't believe that such a small detail slipped past all 4 of us as it was a daft mistake that caused inconvenience. Another mistake was when the shots cut to me and Elliot, instead of saying 'Tom' which is his screen name, we said 'Connor'. Again on the day we didn't realise at all that we had said it, and watching back, we realised that we needed to go out and film again. As this was just little mistakes, the whole scene didn't need to be filmed again, we didn't sit and talk about what needed to be changed. We just went back out to film the next day and changed it. This was easily corrected, it just caused inconvenience and set us back an hour or two of filming, as we had to push everything else back to fit this in.