And the filming commences/Feedback.

On the 25th of February, my group and I begun to film the first 2 minute opening to our thriller 'Vengeance'. We prioritised the party scene mainly on that day as the people needed to play in our party scene our alot of people and it wouldn't be as easy to gather them on another day compared to our main characters.

However, after filming and transferring the footage onto our memory stick we noticed that the lighting on the computer isn't as clear as it was whilst filming it on the camera.
Below is the footage:


Having discussed this with my group, we have decided to change the mis-en-scene of the party scene and going to film our party scene in the main hall in my sixth form. If that is not successful, we are going to change the camera we use to an iPhones camera as the mega pixels and definition of the camera is much more defined.

Feedback:
Hilda: The people look very energetic, which is really good. But, the camera's very blury and some of the characters dancing are spending too much time looking into the camera/noticing the camera which makes the party seem a bit unrealistic.Esther: The footage is really blurry although it did look realistic! Looked semi unorganised.
Chantelle: It's good as the camera wasn't shakey, it looks like a party scene as it's quite dark. Cut out the parts where people are looking into the camera, and when the girl in the black and white stripes turns around.
Alice: The camera work is extremely good, it's not shakey, and when turning around and filming other sides you can tell that the person filming it had stable hands. However, the party itself doesn't look very good as people are focusing on the camera quite a lot.


Weaknesses of this footage/How they are going to be resolved:
The footage was very shaky and blurry and did not really look like how it looked on the camera when transferred to the computer (it looked worse compared to how it looked on the camera). This made it difficult as my group and I had to film the party scene again and to avoid getting the spacious mise en scene in the footage we decided it should be filmed in our schools hall with the camera moving around the people enjoying the environment instead of just filming one section. People in this scene were not directed properly in terms of the amount of space they took up in the scene and how they were moving their body therefore in the other party scene that was filmed I directed them not to use up so much space, not to lip sing the words of the song (because the song we made was going to be edited over it) and for some people to speak to the people around them to create a fun, realistic mise en scene. I also suggested that we play music that the people in the party scene know and enjoy, just to create a positive atmosphere also so that they can actually enjoy themselves instead of having to pretend.