MAJOR PRODUCTION: REVIEWING FOOTAGE

2 days after we completed filming, we had a footage review. Put simply, all three of us sat and sifted through every clip we had filmed, matching them up to the specific scene and making sure that they worked. As a group we had to make sure we were happy with each clip, considering factors such as


- Lighting
-Acting/Performance
- Dialogue
- Framing
- Sound

As we were watching through, I was really happy with the quality of the camerawork that we had. I was quite taken aback at how clear and concise all of shots looked. On some of the shoot days, especially the ones that we did outside, we were slightly worried about how the lighting of the sky was affecting the shot. Obviously the clips always look different when viewing during an edit in comparison to the slight graininess of the viewfinder and I was really happy with how the majority looked. As we went through it because obvious that there was a few issues some a small amount of the scenes we had filmed, this was as follows:

Scene 14 - The coverage wasn't enough at the start of the scene, didn't have enough shots to show Marlo getting from one side of the garden to the other.
Scene 22/24 - These 2 scenes were filmed during the night, and whilst we had some lighting, they still appeared very dark, we and worked hard to prepare a memorial for this scene and personally I didn't think we saw the memorial clear enough to do it justice for the scene in the script.
Scene 23 - The reaction shots of Marlo were not working adequately enough, as the character had just witnessed his girlfriend being hit by a car we needed more of an emotional reaction perhaps with some more coverage.

These were the scenes that we knew we needed to re-film. As we had over 25 scenes to film I was quite happy with the outcome of all of this. I had another look over the budget and worked out that we had roughly £130 left. This meant that we were able to get our actors down for one more day and re-film! After liaising with all of the actors I worked out that we would be able to re-film on 15th March. This was the perfect time because it gives us around 2-3 weeks to make all of the necessary arrangements, it gives Laura a chance to rejig the scenes and make them work before the reshoot day and it is still in plenty of time for all of our edit deadlines.