Reply to Re-shoot post:

Hi Francis, it's Nico. I called Natasha and the re-shoot is fine for today :)

Re-shoot: FOR ATTENTION OF NICO AND NATASHA

Hi Guys it's Francis, we need to re-shoot the shot, as the gun shot does not look good without any make-up and we can't edit around it.
If possible can we do today during the media lesson. Chris (technician) can drive us down to mine.
Please reply on the blog. Thanks.

Behind the scenes- Real shoot 25/02/12

This is exclusive behind the scenes footage of our real shoot.  I talk through our setting, props and equipment, whilst also asking talking to group members Natasha and Francis!

Lighting tutorial

None of us have used lightning so we ask for a tutorial from our technician as from our test shoot we noticed how badly we needed them to stop the images from looking grainy.

Our technician demonstrating using Francis as focus of lightening

Nico adjusting the light positioning

Francis adjusting lightening density

Natasha adjusting volume of light projected 

Shoot Permission Form

This is our shoot organisation form which everyone had to sign, including our teachers, to make sure our arrangements were clear and that we would all stick to them.

Real shoot organisation sheets

As one of the main problems in our test shoot was the lack of props. Here we have written up a comprehensive props list with who is getting what. Secondly we have written up a list of things we ned to do better this time around to make sure the shoot goes smoothly as well as the changes we intend to make.

Teachers Improvements

After our test shoot we showed our teachers our rough cut and we recieved feed back which we took o to make sure our real production is successful.

These are the notes we made when running through the rough edit with Mrs Blackborrow, Mrs Dymioti and Chris, our technician.
Many points and issues came up. The main ones were:

• Changing the opening shots so it did not include as many shots of knives as this is a genre convention of horror, not action/thriller. Focus more instead on items like cigars and whiskey to create the uneasy image we are going for.
• Making it look like the action is continuing beneath the titles.
• Lingering the shot where he picks up his briefcase and replacing the match on action of the door with a new title.
• Including more camera movement.
• Making the gun scene less static by shooting from more angles.
• Get rid of jumps
• Use more interesting framing in the gun scene to draw in audience
• Include shots such as CU of money in briefcase (match on action), assasin picking up briefcase and possibly her taking off her gloves
• Using better lighting to get rid of the grainy image.
• Make things faster-faster shots and possibly a cut down script.
• Use make up and effects for the gunshot.
• Use better props for better mise-en-scene e.g briefcase, whiskey glass, whiskey bottle.
• Making the gun scene a lot more dramatic. Possible ways we discussed were non-digetic sound effects, zoom in to the guys face see a change of expression then zoom out to see the gun, or even a fade to black of the guy in his relaxed state with a sudden jolt back to the image as the assasin appears.