TRANSITION; FILMING DAY THREE

We had a tutorial with Simon to show him the rough cut of our version of Riverdale, unfortunately due to work commitments i couldn't attend, Katie and Laura went and sent on the follow feedback from simon;

Herne Bay Clocktower

- the stuff in the diner is nicely handled visually, the driving stuff seems very random in terms of the location and what we’re seeing - it’s not the dream like quality from - didn’t understand why we don’t see the characters - we have a character getting out of a car then they disappear - we pitched a dream-like, fluid aspect whereas this is very standard, documentary sequencing - didn’t get a close of jughead/ben, shame about this/off balance - fixing audio, putting in atmospheric sounds or music - visually interesting but the beginning is not what we pitched in terms of visual and tone - could try the idea that we’re going along and things are in slow motion, it doesn’t look thought about enough - try different techniques in the edit - the editing is good - screen writing is uninteresting unless we change it <- could go back to screen capture - diner stuff has a sense of focus and is good

A sense that Laura brought with her for the shoot

With this all in mind, we now had to refilm the opening sequence, we had to find a new location that had more interesting stuff to look at, stuff that we would be able to show rather than just normal driving around. We all suggested a range of different locations, such as Whitstable and Ashford, we ended up choosing Herne Bay due to the sites that are on offer there. Sonia couldn't attend the third day of filming so she created a sheet for us with certain sights within Herne Bay that we could film, such as the Herne Bay clock tower. The day began with Laura filming some shots of the clock tower, after this i suggested we film some extreme close up shots of myself and katies features, such as our hair and feet etc, in order to create more of a sense of the characters that the voice over is talking about. We then walked around the bay and found multiple areas to film that we thought would work well.

Laura managed to get her hands on a few different lenses to use on the camera, this really helped us because it allowed us to get some sleek and sharpe shots that helped us create the mood we wanted too. Whilst we didn'thave a lot of time to plan this, as the tutorial was 7 days before our deadline, we didn't have long to film so a lot of the day was us trying to find stuff that would work, i think that overall it did go well, and being in a different location worked well for us instead of us driving around normal town and filming stuff that wouldn't fit with the 'dream like' sequence we were trying to create.