This is the third rough cut for our film opening. I am happy with how our filming is going so far and feel like it is heading in a good direction and we all have a clear idea of what we want from this. This rough cut includes all the match cuts that we have filmed so far (4), it also includes a scene where the actors run down an alley which is filmed from a low angle. The last scene is a much improved version of our first rough cut, this version includes more shots in-between others, we did this because we felt for the story to make sense and for the audience to understand what is happening these shots were necessary. In this last scene we have also included a few re shots, this is because we were not happy with what we had and we felt the shots didn't fit the flow of the film so we reshot them and we were happy with how the second ones came out. We are also very happy with how the second scene down the alley turned out. We first shot that scene and were happy with what we had then realised that we were missing a vital part of our film, the bag. This was frustrating because it meant we had to go back and re shoot it all again but with the bag on. We tried to film every shot exactly the same and we feel like that was a success. In this rough cut i have removed the music we had in the first rough cut because we were never going to use that music because we are in the process of making our own and the audio clip was to short for the whole video.
What next:
The next thing we are going to do is film all our connecting shots so that everything connects and the opening makes sense because right now it is all a bit random. We also need to shoot our opening scene, we will do this when the weather is right and we have all recovered from our illnesses. I also want to experiment with colour grading and matching colours because i feel like this is a very important part to all films and would like to be able to do it successfully, i believe if it is done right then it can improve the film a lot.
