Construction Post 5: The Back-up Shoot

The Back-up Shoot:

The cast and crew getting ready to film a shot

The back-up shoot was great, and was a good book-end for the filming needed for our project. We were able to re-shoot all the shots that we needed to do and get some new bonus shots to add to our sequence.

Me and Noa filming on the day

We didn't change much from the main-shoot, and were merely just improving on shots we had already filmed.

Back-up shoot-board page 1

Back-up shoot-board page 2

Back-up shoot-board page 3

Changes we made:

• We yet again changed Kenny's character so that he could have more relevant dialogue to the sequence, and that it would create humour without being too over the top.
• For all of the interview shots we asked the actors to try and stay in role as we asked them various questions. This worked really well and allowed us to get some really good natural feeling dialogue for each character. This also allowed us to fill the gaps we noticed when editing, and make Toby's interview a bit longer as he is the main character.
• We improved upon the lighting for shot 16 by closing the curtains and turning on the main lights. This meant that Joyce wasn't a silhouette in the shot, and we could see her expressions.

Improved Shot 16

• We also filmed bonus shots of Kenny, and Joyce that we could cross cut into their interviews, e.g. the tinder shot and the homeschooling shot.