Practice Filming

Before we went out to do our final paice of filming we went out and did some practice filming, this helped us realise the positives and negatives of what we had done and made us realise what we had to do to make our film better. I wasnt that happy with the outcome of our practice filming because it didnt look as I wanted it to. The lighting was too dark so the camera didnt perfrom as well as it could of done, this consequencly made the film less convincing. The acting was bad, if I do this again I will take lots of shots of the same scene then I can choose between the shots and make sure I have the best acting possible to make the film convincing becuase otherwise the veiwer my lose intrest. I also didnt like the setting, it wasnt urban enough so the film wasnt as convincing as it could of been, the information that we gathered from our questionairere told us that it needs to be an urban background so we need to re-film this scene in a more urban background.

There was good points to our paractice filming though, I liked the costumes because they fitted the stereo type of street crime and matched what we found out from our questionairre. I also liked the "match on action", we edited well so that it flowed nicely and made the film more convincing. We also used a good range of shots that established the scene and introduced a main character.


practice filming from Luke Samson-Hill on Vimeo.

Doing this practice filming has helped me a lot  and I am very glad I have done it. It has helped me realise the strengths and weaknesses of my film and this has helped me rethink what I am going to do and what I am going to film. If I dont take insperation from this film to improve our footage and to re film the scene, my opening sequence will suffer and it wont be as sucessful and aesthetically pleasing as I had hoped.