Plan for Test Shoot

Our Plan for Our Test Shoot 

Today we did a test shoot for our opening sequence. We did this to see what works and what needs improvement. This exercise was good to see how much material we had, and if it fit the time requirements. We played around with different shot types to agree on which ones as a group we liked the best. Doing a test shoot will help our real opening sequence shoot. It is better to have stumbled into a problem in our test shoot than in our real thing. 

We planned this test shoot by doing a full breakdown of our opening sequence and what will happen. We also planned our location, which was the studio. Then we decided on substitute props for the hammer etc. We obviously we can't bring real weapons to school. We just used water bottles, so the main guy has something to hold.

We planned what characters we needed - Main guy - Danny, Bodies -All, Scared little girl - Saskia 

 We also decided on our roles....

Roles - 

Danny - DOP, CO-DIRECTOR AND ACTOR

Saskia - ASSISTANT C.O, ACTOR, EDITOR

Sienna - MAIN C.O, EDITOR

After shooting on Wednesday, I think we found this quite hard because we only had 35 minutes. I think we could have planned better the order we filmed our shots so that the continuity remained, and we didn't miss any important shots. I think doing a rough story board would've made us more time efficient and as a group given us the same overall picture.  

I think experimenting will different angles and shot types went well. We all agreed that we liked the floor shot of the blood dripping. We also listened to each others ideas and respected each others opinions. It's good that we can work well as a group, so when we do the real thing our shoot will sail smoothly.

However, we did struggled to capture the narrative and mystery we intended the opening sequence to have. It didn't look like how each of us imagined it. Although this was the case, this test shoot was extremely helpful because we can learn to make it better, have more structure and be more believable.