Group 8: First Shoot Feedback

• Having not been able to shoot on Monday the 28th October due to weather conditions, we rearranged our first shoot to Wednesday 30th October. 
• We went up to London with our actors with a list of shots taken from our story board, our aim was too look at the shots we had in mind and create them in person.
• However a big part of the shoot was not planned, when we got too London we improvised too our surroundings, for example we filmed Noah (the young boy) approaching a human statue, we didn't plan shots like this as we didn't know what there would be in London that would be inspirational to us.
• Having looked at some of our footage, we are really happy and see the shoot as being successful. We took over 150 different shots on the day using different angles, distances and movements. We also included two tracking shots that are of a very high quality that could be used as key establishing shots of both character and location.
• We have in mind a very vivid look about our production and we thought about this when shooting every single shot. For example almost every single shot had slight movement in it as we feel static shots could make our video look very amateurishly produced.
• Lastly a big part of our production is going to be focused around the relationship between the mother and son, for this we saw it as being very important to capture the genuine bonding between the two. This meant we filmed spontaneously when they were interacting. This had two major benefits to our production, firstly it creates a stronger sense of verisimilitude and secondly it improves the quality of the footage as we weren't relying on the acting skills of either character.
• The only challenge of the day was the location, as one can imagine London on a half term week was extremely busy, so we did suffer with people being in the way or walking through the middle of shots occasionally.