Production: Changes and Revisions

          As mentioned in the previous post, shooting did not go as planned for the film. Josie and I decided to re-shoot, and luckily we had extra days in our shooting schedule to do this. We are going to shoot again tomorrow, and have created a more detailed shot plan for our opening. It also came to our attention that the mise en scene of our film was not looking how we wanted it to be. After looking over all of the footage, we found that the lack of other students or "extras" on campus during shooting made the film appear awkward and did not make sense. We figured that by shooting the majority of our takes during the school day/passing period, the addition of students walking around the school campus would help our film's narrative come across much clearer.

          It was also decided that we would be taking out some of the more unnecessary shots from the beginning of the opening, and that in re-shooting we would focus more on having smooth transitions to preserve continuity. That being said, Josie and I chose to not re-film the locker scene we intended for our film to have. We felt that this particular action did not flow with the rest of the opening and would be much more of a hassle to re-shoot again. However, in order to add some humor to our film Josie has written up a new script that allows us to included different types of dialogue for our main character, Brittany. I am much happier with the new plan Josie and I have in mind for re-shooting, and I feel that this plan will make filming much easier and will result in a higher quality product. Wish us luck, again!