Construction Post 5: The Back-Up Shoot

Me monitoring the sound

The back-up shoot was definitely our most successful shooting session, with us only shooting new footage for all of the lake scenes. Due to us needing to capture less footage on this day, we were able to start shooting an hour later which greatly improved morale of the whole cast and crew and ultimately positively affected the outcomes of our back-up shooting session. One major improvement we made to our shooting style over the main shoot session was the improvement in quality of our mastershots, which we received good feedback and guidance on from our teachers, as to how to improve our mastershots. We made sure that each continuity sequence had atleast one good mastershot and in the case of the bullying shot it was very important to us to have more than one.

In hindsight, there is not much I would change about our back-up shoot, however when editing we realized there were occasional takes that we could not use as the sun had gone behind a cloud and thus there was a dramatic change in lighting. I think that perhaps we should have waited for the sun to reemerge in such situations, given the amount of extra time available to us on our back-up shoot. That said, we took enough takes of each shot, to have atleast one take in good lighting of each shot, so this issue was largely negated.