Construction: Evidence of Reflection (Last Recording)

During our last recording we made changes to help improve our footage to get the best grade as possible. This involved preventing any errors occurring along the way as we had in the past recordings. This resulted in us delegating clear instructions to each person in our team.

Like the last recording we decided to gather 3 people to play the roles in our horror opening. This time we got two boys and one girl and we excluded Sarah, one of the boys who played our role in the opening was our own member of the group, this was advantageous to us as Sam already knows the script fully and knew what to do to make our shots correct.

We learnt how to level the camera via a tripod properly. This reduced the shaking of the camera work during recording the scenes. This therefore helped time keeping as we didn't keep messing the shots up, there we didn't have to take the shots more than 3 times. We learned how to focus the camera correctly, therefore all the shots looked more professional.

Although this was our last recording meaning any other mistakes will be irrelevant, if we had the chance to improve our construction of our horror opening we would do as the following.

• We didn't take evidence of filming in corridor.
• We would of make text of the "DO NOT ENTER!" sign more professional.
• We would of had less member in the group at the time of recording to avoid distraction of actors.
• We would have more dialogue to make it more realistic and lively.
• We would of picked out what each actor was wearing specifically rather than each them wearing what they came into school.
• We would have put more props around our classroom setting to make it more believable they was in a school environment.
• We didn't get enough retakes of Kai screaming so we didn't get to choose the best one.
• We would have used more methods to make the classroom seem more haunted. Such as the AC turning on by itself or the door opening automatically.

Therefore we feel that our recoding was the best we could produce with the deadlines we have been given because our footage is of a good quality and everything flows fluently and fits perfectly in our editing process.