Shoot 2 - Evaluation

This shoot turned out to be a very disappointing one. This was due to one of the actors we needed not being able to turn up, and only being told at the last minute. This meant that we had to do another shoot after this one.
Since we couldn’t do the end scene without Tim there we decided to re-do some of the footage that didn’t look as good as we had hoped in the editing. We also decided that instead of having a montage of the corpses when they were alive, we decided to have a montage of the dead body. For this we had to amend our storyboard.
The first shot we did was in the opening scene, We shot a montage of a CU of Shaun’s face, then filmed Tom sitting up from the log, as in editing it wasn’t clear he was getting up from the first shoot. We didn’t have any problems with this, as since only a portion of Shaun is shown form the first shoot, we got him in relatively the same position and he was wearing the same clothing so we didn’t have a problem with the continuity. This was the same with Tom.
When filming Tom getting up off the log, we filmed a variety of different angles, but when looking back on the shots we found a branch was in the foreground of the shot. This gave the shot a great effect.
After this we decided to at least film Tom entering the barn for the last scene. We filmed him going into the barn for a few takes, and found they didn’t really look as good as we had liked. This was mainly due to the cars being in the way, which spoilt the shot. We fixed this by bringing the camera closer and putting the cars out of shot. This made the shot look a lot better, but still not good enough. From this we then decided to use a different location that we had seen before and thought of it as a second option. From this we had to amend our storyboard.
We also found that our ending won’t fit as well in the new location, so, to overcome this we decided on a new ending where the corpses will be shown at the end of the film, in the shack ‘alive’ again to get the audience thinking and make our opening more enigmatic.
From this shoot, we learnt to organise our actors better and putting things in the foreground makes the shot look so much better than without. We weren’t as happy with this shoot as we only got a small amount done. However we were a lot happier with our new ending and location and now knew exactly what we had to have done.