Filming Schedule, and how it changed.

We aimed to begin our first lot of filming in the week beginning 7th February. We achieved this target on Wednesday 9th, a time when the whole group as well as our actress was available. The scenes we filmed at this point were the killing scene, the detective scene and the flashbacks. While appearing later in the opening sequence, these particular scenes had been fully planned by this point, whereas the earlier chase had not. Non linear filming is commonplace in the industry, so we felt this technique helped us emulate industry standard more effectively.

We began uploading and doing some initial editing on these scenes in the week after, so we planned our next shoot for the week beginning the 21st. But due to half-term commitments, we moved this date back a week. So our next shoot took place on Tuesday 1st March, at which point we completed the chase scene. We felt this shooting day was more productive, as we had learnt from earlier difficulties by having a clear outline of each shot we needed, and their locations were well-known.

Due to a few unforeseen changes in the screenplay and order of shots, our rough cut was completed later than planned on Thursday 24th. Once the rough cut had been completed, we analysed the footage ourselves as well as receiving audience feedback, an example of this is the video interview later in the blog. After consolidating the changes into new shots and shots to be re-filmed, we gave ourselves one day to complete these shots, to allow time to edit our final cut. This date was set as Thursday 31st March.

Overall, this shoot went extremely well, partly due to the fact that for shots we were re-filming, we already had a basic reference point in the rough cut. Therefore our objectives were much clearer, and therefore easier to achieve. Editing the last shoots footage into the opening was much simpler due to already knowing their placement and purpose. Our final cut was completed on Friday 15th April.