New Start - Michael McGroarty

Today we were granted an extended deadline due to the lighting in our film. Our tutor said it was unwatchable, so he granted us until next Monday to get it filmed. Therefore, rather than opt for a Level 1 mark, which will secure an E grade, we are opting to shoot again at the weekend. This time we have redheads for our lighting. This will hopefully mean our lighting will be of a good quality, as we have learned that work lights and torches with no gels doesn't work at all. The redheads can be manipulated a lot more; they have gels and diffusers, and the 4 boards surrounding the light can be narrowed and widened for specific purposes. Hopefully this will serve the function we want this time round.

I will also add more to the script, give it a shuffle around. We needed more dialogue' not much, but enough to get it up to an acceptable level of run time. I'll also get rid of some lines that didn't work very well. I'll make it snappier, coax some emotions out of the dialogue. This time I'll write out the shooting schedule' the storyboards got confusing quite soon into our last shoot. This means our footage, poster and movie review will all have to be done for the 1st of April. Below is a list of our tasks that need completing, in no particular order:-

• Filming done on the weekend
• Editing completed ASAP
• My initial poster ideas
• Organisation for a poster shoot during next week
• Research on Little White Lies completed
• Development of poster analysis
• New, improved script
• Shooting schedule
• Shot changes noted

We need to nail this one in a few hours, so we have to be efficient during our shoot.

Posted by Michael McGroarty