FINISHED - SHOOT 1 PREPARATION AND REFLECTION

BEHIND THE SCENES

This is the BTS video of our first shoot we did, and overall I think it went quite well, we worked efficiently as we wanted to get as much done as possible on the first day of shooting, the first day of shooting consisted of the Bedroom scene, the Bathroom scene and the living room scene, filming took place approximately an hour after we had arrived at Emma's house as Emma needed to apply makeup to Louis, and we had to set up the Mise-en-scene for our shoot in the living room. To maximise efficiency, we decided that instead of starting and stopping our recording we would continue filming, and film the same thing several times. We learnt a lot throughout this process, that will be good for the next shoot we do. Unfortunately we didn't have a cast member present on this day and so we couldn't work as fast as we had really hoped, however we still got a lot done.
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REFLECTION
- After arriving at Emma's house at 10AM, it took an hour to begin filming.
- The first scene we filmed was the bathroom scene, followed by the bedroom scene and  then the living room scene.
- The short part of the bathroom scene wherein the zombie was injured/killed took approximately 30-40 minutes to get all the right shots we wanted.
- We took a break at lunch to eat, and collect extra pizza boxes for the living room scene.
- Overall, we filmed for between 4 and a half to 5 hours.
- Spikey Films & Scope Productions filmed and directed most of this shoot as there were very few opportunities for me to do so as I was in majority of the scenes.

THINGS THAT WENT WELL
- We worked well as a group whilst filming and got a lot done.
- We filmed in an order which best suited the convenience at the time.
- we achieved a large variety of shots and shot types
- The zombie makeup achieved verisimilitude
- The shots we used achieved a comedic reading.

THINGS THAT DIDN'T GO WELL
- I was unable to film any shots
- We were unable to use the game console as cables were missing.

THINGS WE'LL DO BETTER NEXT TIME
- I will film more, and if I am unable to film more I will direct more shots.
- Look for more areas in which we can add comedy elements
- Be more efficient when it comes to transitioning between filming scenes
- More efficient make-up (maybe while filming one scene, we could be doing makeup)