FC: Reflection on Shoot 18/1/2015

The shoot was at my house on Saturday the 18th of Janruary. it was a brisk Saturday morning, frost adorned the grass, iridescent raindrops shimmered in the morning light as three young men got psyched up to shoot some media coursework. Go team.

What scenes were we focussing on

• we were shooting the flashback scenes only so these are the ones we focussed on.
• we wanted to get a good array of different shots because we didn't have a specific order in which we were going to put them in. By having the same shot from a view different angles we freed up possibilities.    

What did I do?

• helped set up the room to look like a murder had taken place.
• helped film, many creative ideas/decisions.

How did the story board affect our shoot?

• We didn't use a story board so we didn't have any plan to follow. This meant we basically improvised all our shots which turned out to work quite well.

What worked particularly well

• We used faked blood and other aesthetics to make the murder look real, this worked quite well and produced realistic results.
• we also had to trash up the room a bit with a random assortment of ornaments which went well as the room looked like a murder had taken place.
• we made use of props like broken glasses to make the situation more believable.
• we used quite a wide range of shots to convey the murder and I think the red colour scheme came out nicely on the camera.

What were the challenges in this shoot?

• we shot during the day so we were not sure how difficult it would be to convey horror in broad daylight.
• Obviously we didn't have our storyboards so that was a bit of an inconvenience when we came to film the stuff.