Evaluation- Scarlet and The Killer.

Our first piece of filming was the scenes that take place within Megan's room, this includes her getting ready, the ringing phone, Scarlet on the bed, the dress and the killer walking out of the room. There were a few errors whilst filming these scenes which resulting in us having to re-film some of them. Due to this being the first set of filming that we had done, it showed that we didn't have enough footage to include a build-up of revealing the dead body.

Me and Megan acted and filmed the scenes multiple times but we did not realize it would be better to have little shots that revealed the dead body which would increase the tension and build up more of a story line for the rest of the film.
If we were to do this again then we would make sure that we had close-ups of small details which would increase the tension and slowly revealing the body to the audience.

When we started to edit the piece together, we realized that the panning shots were no good to use because they were jumping due to having to work with a tricky tripod. As the scenes were jumping noticeably we had to use what we could from the filming although this was not enough to fulfill what we was looking to achieve.
If we were to re-film these scenes then I would make sure that every time the camera or tripod made the filming jump that I will stop recording and then start recording again to ensure that it has a better flow to it and that we can use the pan and zooming shots we would like to use within our film.
As a group we decided that re-filming all of this would take more time than we had to finish, so instead of this we thought that we could take cuts of what we did have and hoped that it worked for the best. When we tried to sort this out and edit it correctly and to how we wanted it, there were still a few errors and we found out that we still didn't have all the correct footage or enough of what we needed. Although this ensured us knowing what we needed to film instead of having to re-film the whole thing again.

We had to keep re-filming the shots of the phone because of the times that were shown on it. First of all it still had the correct time of when we were actually filming (around 5:00 pm) which would have been a terrible mistake of we were to include it because the girls call each other just before 10:00 pm. Secondly we had the correct timing but due to us having to keep re-filming this scene the time on the phone kept going which meant the time we actually wanted (10:56) had been changed which may change the events for the rest of the opening.

Lastly we were looking at the killer walking out of the room, this was difficult because we had to make the surroundings dark because of the time that the film is set, however when we got back and uploaded the footage, it was too dark. As a group we didn't see this as a problem but then we knew what we was looking for and what was supposed to be happening but when we played it to a small audience there was no recollection of what this could have been because the scene was far too dark.
We re-filmed the killer walking out of the room but made sure we had the artificial lighting of using the light that was in the passage way. At first I thought that this would take away the seriousness from tension we were trying to create, although when uploaded, it was definitely better than when it was almost pitch black.
On the re-film, you can see that the bathroom door was still open whereas in the original it had been closed, I feel that the door should have been shut but it is only a minor error meaning we could get away with this. Another reason I think we would be able to get away with this is because not everyone has their bathroom door constantly shut so it could apply to some of the audience.