Filming Evaluation - Refilming

Once we had filmed our film opening the first time we found that the footage when had filmed wasn't long enough when we began editing. This was an issue as it meant that the film opening wouldn't be 2 minutes once it had been cut and edited. Due to this issue, we decided to go back to our storyboard and add in some extra scenes at the beginning to ensure that it was long enough.

Once we had redrawn and discussed our storyboard we set a date to refilm our film opening. To begin with we planned to use the same actor and just film the extra scenes needed. However, we had am issue with us all being able to meet on the same day and decided that it would be best to refilm the whole film opening again. This meant that we could use a different location and also allowed us to ensure that every thing looked the same such as the lighting, clothing, actors and location.

We all met on Saturday 16th January at 10am to refilm. We planned for everyone to bring the exact same props as last time and we met at the actors house. We then walked for 10 minutes to the location near by and set up to film.

This time round we were quicker when filming as we had already filmed most of the scenes once before and so knew which camera angles and shots to use and where to set up, this made it a lot easier and meant that we could refilm some sections very quickly. However, the added scenes which we had not filmed before took a little longer as we had to plan where to film and discuss the shots chosen in a lot more detail to get it right. We also had to use a dog in our added scenes and these took considerably longer to carry out and get right.

We found that the weather conditions were a lot better this time round as they were a lot easier and more comfortable to film in and the lighting in the footage made it easier to see some scenes, which were harder to see in the first set of footage filmed. Using a different location was also successful as it was a lot more practical as it wasn't muddy and there were paths available to use when filming.

Once we had finished filming we had ended up with considerably more footage compared to the first time we filmed, which meant that it was long enough for us to use for our film opening and could still be cut and edited and be long enough. This meant that refilming our opening scene was successful and that we could begin to edit and finish our film opening.