Evaluation of Sunday shoot

Video evaluation of the practice of the final shoot

Rough draft of final scene

Complications that arose during the practice:
Firstly we ran out of time during the shoot; we were supposed to at least complete rough drafts of two scenes of our opening, but in the end only managed to complete one. This was due to time wasting and the fact that two of the people in our group had other commitments during that afternoon. However now I believe we  have a better handle on this scene and don't think we'll experience the same amount of time wasting as in this one.
                Another issue that occurred during the shoot was that Dan didn't suit his acting role as well as could be hoped. He had a hard time saying his lines like a human being and so we have decided to change the actor that will be playing this role to Jamie Fraser Smith, who has had previous acting experience (also he has a dog).
                A third issue was that the tracking shots and pans weren't very smooth and so some new method will need to be devised to make them better. However there is little we can do to mend this.

Our Film Idea

The story that we have decided to use as a basis for our film is that the murderer is a reporter who is creating his own dark stories to be reported on. His back story is that he has grown mad because of lack of any kind of interesting occurrence in the area he works as a reporter in. His prospects had dried up years ago soon after moved to this town and he has now given up on any rational path in life ;he's taken to murdering people in cold blood just so he has a story to write. The only feature that he has in common with his murderous blood thirsty side however when he is his everyday golly self is his fondness for whistling while he walks. This is something that will prove to be his undoing later in the movie, however this is something that doesn't necessarily need much time spent thinking about as it isn't the part of the movie we are filming.
                   The opening part of the film that we are creating acts mostly as a method of introducing the main character of the movie to the audience through the presentation of one of his acts of murder. The victim of which is a poor teenager that has come to the murderers house to try and kill him as revenge for his friend who were killed by him, however fails magnificently to do so as he is the first person to be murdered in front of the audience of the film, but not the first victim. This teen character will be better explained later in the film by the murderer when he is looking back on his actions. I think that by jumping into the action like this will make the thriller opening more interesting and engaging
                   The final scene of the film opening includes a random civilian friend of the murderer who happens to walk by him in an alleyway while taking his dog out for a walk. The reporter is already hugely respected locally for giving such descriptive tails about the murders that have been occurring, even more descriptive than the police that have been investigating them. So this is the topic that the man brings up as he talks to the journalist serial killer, describing to the reporters surprise that a detective was murdered only the night before, deep in the woods. The two men part and the murderer begins to whistle in the same fashion he did the night before as he pursued his victim.
                                                     
THE END.

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Risk assessment

Saturday shoot called off

The weekend shoot was cancelled because of a thunderstorm and lack of equipment. We had seen the weather report prior to the day but thought that we could finish shooting before the rain started, however this didn't happen. Although the rain wasn't the main problem on the day; the main problem was that the person we were expecting to provide the cameras had forgotten to charge them up over night. To prevent this from happening again I will make sure that we have back up cameras for the next shoot we attempt so that if the person supplying our cameras forgets to charge them again, we can still shoot. Another problem we had when we last shot was that the supplier of the cameras took a long time to get the footage back to us. To make sure this doesn't happen again we will take the footage of the cameras straight after shooting. Apart from the equipment and weather, everything was set to happen, so even though it was a disappointment, at least we could practice bringing all the components together. The next shoot will have much more planning.