shoot day reflection

media shoot wright up


We arrived at school and at 8:50 we all met up in the media edit suit and planned out the costumes and equipment to take with us. We then went down to the studio and picked up our equipment and took it to the buss ready to go to our location in Ewhurst. When we got to our location, we had a meeting in the kitchen and went over our idea and talked about our plan for our shoot. Mike then showed us a different location that would work better. We went around it a planned what we were going to do and from there we adjusted our idea accordingly. We decided that we would set it in the location as the seral killer's layer and that we would use one of the rooms to symbolise all the people that he had killed we did this because there was a room full of suitcases.


We then went round with my phone and took photos with Matilde of all our possible shots this gave us a good indication of how are shoot would flow. Due to our location we had to think a lot of things out as the ground and lots of things around us were really unstable and dangerous. There was also a lot of steps down and the floor was made of concrete so any mistakes would lead to quite a few consequences. After this we started laying out how mathilde would come down the stairs through the entrance and pass the camera we vegan cited whether he wanted the gun out or end and we also will adjustments to her costume due to the limited space and her movement. He then took a few shots of her coming down the stairs and took it from a few different angles we did a wide shot and then a mid shot we didn't want to do a bit of a pov type shot so beforehand that old was coming down the stairs and was looking back up into the distance where the stairs are facing and then would follow through the corridor so we decided that at the point that she looks up behind her looks back we would use a POV view shot. We really like this we thought it would add more variety within our opening sequence. The next part of our shots was when mathilde finds bashy after he's been attacked and she laying down and there is blood everywhere and this is where there is the first piece of dialogue. we wanted to use some better lighting for the scene so we used a front light to like bash his face and in this scene we don't actually see mathilde space so we didn't need to light her. We did many close ups of the scene as we wanted the audience to see their face expressions with as much detail and connect with the sadness of what was going on.


The next part the move sort of changes it becomes less sorrowful and more angry and action packed it's now mathilde's mission to find where the killer is we positioned the camera in the corridor and had shots of her walking out of the Roma bashy was and we still want to be able to see her emotion about this so we did this in a mid shot the next poppy seed friends again adds a extra part of emotion and melanchony tone she walks into the next room after coming out the road bashy and she sees a room filled with suitcases on the shoot day we decided that we wanted to do a I line match so we had her then the suitcases and then back at her we wanted there to be less tension here and more silence sort of expressing the emotion coming from mathilde. The next scene is where Mike and mathilde had their interaction now this was a little bit more complicated to shoot we wanted that to be a lot of tension and darkness I wanted to have some kind of build in our location we had a basement that was old and it was filled with random things and it also had these arches placed in the centre we wanted to take advantage of the spaces so our next shot was mathilde walking through the door into this basement however we had her look back behind her back into the suitcase room we got a mid shot and a closeup of this and then when she looked back Mike would walk through one of those Archers and then it went it turns around you no longer see him anymore. after the production group really liked this idea as we thought it would create a lot more attention for the urgent as they could see what was happening however mathilde couldn't and objects yet it would also indicate the audience that something was going to happen as they were both in the same space. Next shot was one that was a little bit more adventurous one that we had to rehearse a few times we wanted to pass the camera between one arch to another as a tracking shot to keep theme of stalking and following we did this by having two people on the camera hand held it started off in the side that mathilde walked in on and then as she'd walk past the art it would move on to the other side and see her come out the other side we really like this as we thought it would give more variation and keep the audience interested it wasn't just all standstill shots.



The next part of our opening sequence change for the original idea at the start of planning opening sequence and wanted the attacker to be having a knife and would proceed to run at mathilde however on his shot day we come to realisation that this wasn't exact vibe tell me decide to change a knife to a gun I want this between more action and more fight between Mike and matilde. we wanted to play on the fact that mathilde clearly had the power and have the skills over Mike so in the scene we had Mike after mathilde had walked round the corner come up behind her and place a gun to her head here we also did a closeup of mathilde dropping her gun now for the audience it may seem that she has lost it and he is going to win the situation however we wanted him to make as much the fool of himself as possible so here we also decided to add dialogue of him thinking that he had got her and he had won the fight although the next shot would be mathilde turning round the flipping the gun onto him completely overhauling him and taking control and power of the situation we did this scene in a lot of different shots we did it in a mid shot a close up we also tried it from many different angles he had it from looking at the scene front on we then had it from looking side on these were all mid shots and then a last shot of the day was a hand held following the action of mathilde turning round putting the gun back onto mike.


in conclusion I think our shoot day went really well we adapted to the location change and all the difficulties that brought us I feel that we worked extremely well as a production group and we kept everything calm and listen to each other and responded in a way that helped everybody out we didn't feel like we needed to rush and we felt that we kept on our schedule really well even though we had our own roles on the shoot day everyone took part in the other roles and it worked really well as all our shots came from different people and give it variation. All the new ideas that we added in ended up working out really well and we rarely had to start over or scrap anything we also felt like we shot a good ratio to filming and then what would end up in our final eddit. To improve I feel that maybe we should have visited our location before we shot that and maybe cleared up some stuff and arranged all set to fit us rather than us having to adapt for the set. Nothing is that we had some issues with background noise however this could turn into a good thing it could add extra creepyness and add to the silence if we choose to have any.