Reflection on Re-Shoot

Due to our footage not being up to standard, we had to re shoot and change our concept slightly. Instead of following the science boys as they walked down the corridor with a dolly-shot, we decided to take inspiration from the 'Hot Fuzz' opening we analysed and made the science boys walk towards the camera while it stayed in the same place. To add to the comedy, we made did some shots of the boys walking into the camera and then some where the character Ashley puts his ahnd over the camera. We hope to use this scene as a 'spoof' so the characters look like a cool gang sturtting towards the camera, but then as they get closer it becomes clear they are a group of nerds.

When we filmed this shot, we used a different corridor in B-block which was darker at the end the corridor where the actors began. This meant that at the beginning you couldn't make out their appearances so this really added to the 'spoof' effect. The shot we liked the most was the character Ashley covering the camera screen with his hand however we will ahev to look and review all the shots on the computer (hopefully, by tomorrow.)

Also when we did the re-shoot, we did small montages of each character using various camera angles. For the character Fenton, we had him working hard at a desk and adjusted a calculator that wasn't straight to make his character look very precise and orgnised. We made the character Daniel come into a room and trip dropping all his booksa nd files and then picking them back up - this was tricky and we needed to concentrate on continuity of where the books fell. For the character Ashley, we got him doing his hair in the boys toilets and then leaving with his trusty biology textbook. Finally, for the character Matt we got him drawing obscene pictures on a classroom door to show how he tries to be rebelious. The Matt section should use an action match and he goes from the whiteboard and then runs out the door.

We also re-hot our credit sequence with the notebook turnign with the credits written on the page. We had to redo this with a tripod to make it steadier than how we had originally shot it but apart from that, it reamined the same to the original shooting we did.

Having to re-shoot has really taught me the importance of a tripod! Although some of the footage we had from our Saturday filming was good, we wanted it at the highest quality we could and also we did not have enough variety of camer-angles. During our re-shoot me and Kirsty were very concious of having a variety of shots to show off our ability. We were also very lucky that our original actors were cooperative and agreed to another time to re-shoot otheriwse we may ahve had to rethink our who concept. Also, I've realised our original idea of shooting may have been over-mabicious (especially due to the lack of professional equiptemnt we have as media students) so I know that in the future, to really think about the logistics of an idea and how practical it really is for us to achieve.