First filming draft evaluation

We have now filmed our draft film two times due to the fact that when we first filmed, the frames weren't right. When we put the film onto the mac u could see more of the scene that you could on the camera. This meant door handles and flooring boards etc were in the shot. This made the shot look unproffessional and it didn't live up to expectations. However by filming this and getting it wrong it enabled us to improve and make the second filming easier to set. Although Liv was the cast in the film, she still contributed ideas and her opinion whilst filming. Jordan filmed and I directed. We split it so that we all had our own roles which made it alot easier. The second time round filming, it was a lot easier as we all knew what we were doing and which aspects would achieve which look. E.g the spotlight, the make-up etc. Keeping the storyboard very simple enabled us to concetrate on more detail within the film. For example certain aspects of how actions were done, e.g. eye contact with the audience. Here are some shots of Liv in the current film. Her make-up and hair is slightly different due to changes we made...















Our first draft isn't as good as we expected it to be, however we still have time to improve it which is when we will hopefully make it alot better. When filming we encounted a number of problems. Our first problem was the lighting. We didnt want to use natural light as it wasn't bright enough however using lamps were making the lighting to bright. To over come this we had to find a really small lamp that didn't produce much light. This spotlighted Livs face, and focused the attention on her. Another problem we encounted was when we were filming it was hard to find a plain white background. Using cloths and material were showing too many creases which made the film look tacky. But when we used a plain wall there was too many objects in the way. In the end we had to clear the wall in order to produce a completely plain blackground. This would make Liv stand out more and be the main feature of the video.