Group: Evaluation of 2nd shoot

• We agreed with one of the actors (Dan Qureshi) to use his residence as a base for our operations for the few hours of filming, this was very practical as we was able to store our equipment and prepare our props and actors/actresses for the shoot.
• We arrived at the location which we used for the scene of the murder, we then consulted the neighbours to make them aware that we were shooting a scene for a film opening, to prevent any distress.
• Firstly, we filmed our establishing shot which was a shot of the environment sorrounding the location of the murder, we found that it was traditional of thriller/horror movies to have a wide-angle shot as an establishing shot.
• Secondly, we filmed the shot of the murderer (Dan Qureshi) walking towards the place from which he would murder the the victim, we shot a number of macro-shots including close-ups of his feet and an extreme close-up of the murderer's face. We also filmed a shot where the murderer is seen to be drawing something from his jacket, we used a stapler and a film canister to portray the look of him getting a gun from out of his jacket, as we were not allowed to use real or imitation weapons.
• Then we prepared the scene of the murder, we used chalk to draw a number of religious and cultural symbols to sorround the body, the victim then laid down in amongst the symbols, as if the murderer had killed her and then drawn the symbols. When looking back at this piece of footage, we were very happy with how the shot looked.
• We then filmed the scene where the murderer is photographing the body, the footage we shot here was satisfactory, but we were not thrilled. We decided that due to time constrictions and the lack of opportunities for our actors to come back and film that scene again, we decided we would use the footage as it was (although we would obviously edit it). We filmed some medium-close ups of the murderer taking photos of the body, the photos are almost a point-of-view (POV) shot from the corpses body, depsite the fact that she is dead.
• Finally, we filmed some more shots of the indoor scene, where the murderer would be planning the murders, these shots look very nice and realistic, this was partly due to the use of props such as a map containing photos, names and locations of the victims of the murders.
• Generally, we were very happy with how the footage we filmed at this shoot, we thought that some shots looked as good as we wanted them too, with most of them exceeding our expectations. One of our main worries about the productions process of our project, was that filming at night time could have looked grainy which would of had a very negative impact on the film in general. When looking over the footage, we were thrilled with how the night-time shots looked, and only required minimal colour correction for them to look good.