Refilming our coursework piece

Our original coursework piece didn't turn out exactly how we'd planned it to. Here is a link to the first piece we made:



We realised our errors more or less instantly when it came to editing our piece. We didn't use very many camera shots. This made the shots longer and it makes it much harder to focus your attention on it as it doesn't seem interesting. The different camera shots add variety in to a clip and this is what our piece was lacking.

The idea we had was a stalker following a young girl, although we had our basic idea we didn't really think about each and every camera shot. We thought mainly about the story rather than how we were going to portray it via the use of different camera shots.

Another problem we had was filming in the photography dark room at school. Obviously, it is a dark room, so its bound to be dark inside. We struggled with the lighting, yet this was an important part of our opening because the stalker is developing photos of his victim in there. It was hard to show this even with the camera on night mode, and because the room was very small it was hard to get a variety of camera angles.

However, I thought the idea we had for our film was good, perhaps we just didn't go about the right way of preparing and filming it. I also thought our original establishing shot was a good shot as it introduced the location of the girls house straight away. In this shot we see the stalker walk past the house and stand down the ally ready to pounce on her when she leaves the house. It introduced the setting straight away. Our let down was the lack of different camera shots used.