Preliminary Film

In Catherine and I's film, we decided to do a sort of good guy/ bad guy situation (see preliminary planning for details). We had to find some people to be actors for us, so we got Chris Smith and Paul Daulby to act for us, because we weren't allowed to film ourselves.

The rom we used for our film was a study centre room upstairs in Auburn Place. We moved all of the tables and chairs that weren't required for our film out of the view of the camera, and then we found some items like folders and paper to put on the "evil boss" type's desk, which was the character Chris was. We then discussed how we would go about getting the camera shots we wanted in the space we had, and briefed Paul and Chris on how they performed their roles as best they could.

Before we shot each piece of the film, Catherine and I got Paul and Chris to do a couple of practice runs of each scene, so that we could make suggestions and say whether they were doing as we wanted. Then when we were happy with it, we would turn the camera on and film each scene, and most times we shot it more than once just to be sure we had the best choice of footage possible when it came to editing the finished product.

Once we'd finished filming and editing, we discovered that part of our film didnt quite flow properly, and to get it to work we needed to re-shoot most of the start all over again. However, Chris was away that day so we could only re-do the bits with Paul, and try and edit what we already had of Chris.

Overall, once we'd put together our film with the new bits we filmed, I think we did quite a good job with our film. Just about all but two of the shots followed and flowed from one to another, and all of the angles and editing was done really well. If there was one thing I could go back and change, I would have added one more shot to make part of the film flow better.