Having put together a rough edit, its become evident that there are two key problems. One, that we haven't shot enough to fill our two minutes (a problem which, ironically, we faced in our continuity task- have we truly learnt from our mistakes? In this instance, clearly, probably not) Second of all, shots that we thought looked good in the moment, ultimately, didn't look so good in the editing process. In fact, it looked pretty bad. And so, like the conscientious Media students that we are, we took it upon ourselves to come up with a resolution that shall hopefully solve the aforementioned problems.
First of all, we're going to do a reshoot at Jacobs house. We as a group need to have more focus and, although I'm a fan of spontaneity, more reliance needs to be put upon our storyboards so that we have a greater focus as a group, as opposed to one or two leaders. Our group needs to consider lighting more and we need to perfect our panning, as well as the steadiness of the camera in certain shots.
Moreover, we've decided to do a short shoot in London, outside Parliament and Big Ben. This exterior shoot gives our piece a wider variety of shots and, again, makes our opening feel more professional and authentic looking. Shooting amongst the public has symbolic connotations of the hidden nature of psychos, and this metaphor gives our opening a more defined theme. Also, it makes our teachers motives more prevalent to the opening, the subject nature of our two minutes explained more clearly.
These improvements needed to put in place; despite feeling happy on the day with our shoot, often the mistakes only come to the fore when you can put the shots together, seeing a rough draft. And so, our groups willingness to make the necessary improvements makes me more confident that we can build upon our experiences in our initial shoot, and now we can hopefully approach our work in a more confident, sophisticated and focused way.
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