Construction: Evidence of Reflection (First Recording)

In this post we reflected on everything that we had done in our first, we did this by making a rough edit of our footage which made it easier to spot all the things that had went wrong and possible changes which were needed.

We noticed several mistakes in our recording and this consisted of the following:

• Very shaky establishing shot
• People smiling to make it look like it was staged
• actors looking into the camera
• Diegetic sound being unclear to hear in certain shots
• Setting of the classroom being unorganised and unprofessional
• No books or bags in front of actors to make it seem like they are studying
• Quality of the camera was very weak and unclear (unfocused)
• Lighting of some scenes were different to others so characters were hard to see
• Main Character did not look scared and sometimes grinned
• Time was limited
• Shot list was not specific and complete
• Missing shots, meaning if the day looked different and we recorded again, it would not fit with our previous footage and did not look right.

After realising the number of mistakes that were made we decided to record for the second time and hope we can cancel everything that went wrong. For this it meant we had to gather and recruit new actors for our characters as some were in the process of doing mock examinations and our main character was severely ill and has no chance of coming in to record for us.

This also meant that we would have less time to edit as we had to wait a week to record again as there was only 2 periods in which all of our group members and cast were available