Decisions/Revisions

We encountered 4 problems when filming our Thriller introduction.

- Our actor had to drop out from our original filming schedule, I (Daniel) had to take up the role as an actor and thus we had to re-film, although this wasn't a bad decision because of...
- From our original film we found several mistakes in the first minute of what we had filmed, examples such as background static and small continuity errors like small objects being moved.
- Our lighting was sub-par as we had not employed the use of a lamp
- We had not finished filming in the first take,

 I'm quite happy that we decided to revise these parts of our film as our thriller movie looks far better. I think the main improvement with the lighting was key to creating a realistic and easy to follow storyline for our opening to our thriller.

During filming, we took the decision to take 3-4 of each shot, we did this so we could
A) Experiment with a use of camera angles and techniques, using low angle, high angle shots.
B) Toy around with lighting and effects, creating shadows.
C) Make sure that we got a perfect, smooth pan, with no camera jolts or imperfections such as a shaky camera hand or the lens coming out of focus in darker shots.

After filming our final thriller piece, we had found no continuity errors, good lighting had replaced the bad lighting and we had fully improved on those 4 problems we had encountered on our first take of our film.