Film-Studies Blogs

Final Days of Shooting Coming up to the final days of shooting as well as the end of the film for the first deadline, I have the nightmare sequence, as well as the final escape scene to shoot and edit. I am planning to shoot both of these across two days and not have to reshoot any shots. To achieve this, I am planning the two shoots as carefully as I can with angles, perspectives, and important lines of dialogue.  The nightmare sequence will give context to the reason why Ryan is being haunted and followed by Ella, by seeing him move throughout a dark house and eventually find a room lit with red lighting, showing Ella standing close to a window. The scene will show distorted imagery and quick cuts to other disturbing images to make the viewer feel on edge whilst the nightmare continues. Eventually, after reaching the red room, he will wake up after seeing Ella. The final scene will show Ryan escaping from a zombie threat that will chase him through an ab...

Reshoots Through filming the opening scene and the introduction to the characters, I realised that I would need to come back and reshoot certain scenes or shots. After watching the clips back, I knew that I could experiment more with lighting and different lenses to achieve a far more cinematic look to my final piece. For example, the opening shot of Ryan putting in his earphone has been improved drastically through a single reshoot. The improved shot shows more Bokeh and is more vibrant in colour than the previous shot. I also slowed this clip down to really let the audience take in the shot.  Through further reshoots, my main aim was to make each individual shot flow far better with one another as well as move my perspective to see if I could gain a more professional appearance to the film. These reshoots also offered me the chance to progress the story further, as I am constantly coming up with new ideas throughout shooting, to push the film further until its ...