Test Shoot

Test Shoot

The test shoot took place during the Christmas Holidays. Its purpose was to be a practice shoot to see what we could improve on and what steps we would take next in creating the final piece of our Opening Scene.

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the practice shoot so Pip and Issy very kindly did all of the filming. I contributed to editing the practise shoot so that as a viewer who has not seen any of the footage before, I could input some suggestions and improvements that we could make when we do our real filming.

Here are a few key points that we need to take into account:

• The Lighting: Make sure the rooms is lit up brightly so we can have the full effect of the black and white filter.
• Dolly Zoom: Make sure we get a smooth and effective shot.
• Continuity Errors: There were only a couple of minor continuity errors, such as the actress needs to put down the powder before picking up the lipstick.
• Costume: We are going to use a white dressing gown, because the black one was too dark and merged into the shot too much.
• Movement: We have decided that the actress will not walk to the chair and put on the gloves after getting up from the dressing table, as the shot was too long.
• Sound: We will create our foley sounds and dub them over the video edit so that there is high sound quality. We are working on finding the correct type of music to use in the background for the first part of the opening. I have done some research and found a song called 'Do Something' by Broadway Broadcasters, and I have slowed it down in Garageband to make it relaxed and slow, which is what the pace of the first part of our opening is.

In conclusion, the test shoot was a great way to put our imaginations and visions onto the screen so we could see what we could do to improve it and how we would shoot something and where the camera would be.