On Thursday the 20th of November, our group participated in filming a quick test shoot of our opening sequence. We quickly brought some chairs down to our filming spot, just outside the pavilion, and arranged for some extras to come and help us decide character positioning. We quickly filmed our opening sequence, using Claudia's phone, and looked through the footage to decide what we thought was a good idea, and what didn't look good on camera. Eventually we came to the conclusion that the people at the funeral might need to be split up, to make it clearer that there is a man in the background, because on the footage it was difficult to see whether he was in the scene of whether we had just cut to a different location entirely. After overcoming this, as well as a few other obstacles, mainly concerning the character positioning in certain shots, as well as the positioning of the coffin, we began to film our final piece of test footage.
Although we found that the footage looked correct, we didn't find the idea thrilling or compelling enough, and soon after we decided that we needed to change some vital elements of our piece. We found that the whole scene its self was too complicated for a two minute video, and after considering the time we would be given, realized that we would not be able to present our idea understandably in just two minutes. While I found this frustrating, I felt that the change was necessary as we did need to inject more thrilling elements into the sequence, and after talking to Mike about this, he explained we did not need a vastly complex opening scene, and that we could use a simple idea, like someone digging up a grave. We decided to alter the idea, but keep it set in a graveyard, as we felt it added a slightly frightening element to the sequence, and from this developed a new, and in my opinion, much better idea.
In conclusion, I found that the test shoot was very useful in helping us define what was wrong with our piece,after watching over our footage we were able to tell which ideas worked and which were not suitable for our sequence. And after realizing these mistakes, we were able to successfully create a better, more thrilling idea.
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