Construction Post 3: Reflections on our Main Shoot Session

Personally, I felt our main shoot session went very well and in fact all the footage we shot at my house in the afternoon we ended up using in the final edit. All of this footage was well lit, shot and acted in and thus it was an easy call for us to say that we were happy with it. During this shoot we had fewer technical issues than on our practice shoot, with the only major issue being a loud buzzing coming out of our monitor headphones. This was not too big of an issue as the sound was still properly recorded, it just meant that we were not able to notice disruptions to our sound recordings, which could have been caused by the nearby train.

Myself and the lead actor on the shoot

That said, our footage captured for the conflict scene was next to unusable, this is because the continuity in this sequence was exceptionally poor as we only had one master shot, which meant we found it very difficult to produce something continuous and interesting to watch as our final product. This was fixed on our backup shoot, by liaising with our teachers beforehand and working out an improved shot list and procedure for filming our takes. If we were to do our main shoot again, I would have definitely placed far more emphasis on capturing multiple high quality master shots from a range of angles. That said, as a whole I was happy with our main shooting session, although it definitely could have been improved on.