Re-Filming: Lighting preferences

In conjunction with my last blog my group decided to fix filming issues. Our class did a peer review last week. Some notes we were given said that it was hard to see. My group came to the conclusion that there was too much light in front of the camera. In order to fix this we adjusted the camera location to the other side of the room. In this particular scene there was a big improvement. The light was now behind the camera. This allowed the camera to focus on the character. The scene was more fluid and you could see what was happening more clearly. The scene that we decided to reshoot was the scene where Alex re-enters the room to find out her grandma lied to her. This scene is pivotal to the story line of our movie opener. This scene is where the conflict is first introduced. If not conveyed properly our entire final task could be confusing to watch. One issue we ran into was length. Our movie opener was already cropped. In my editing blog I mentioned that I had to cut out 30 seconds of footage. Our video time limit was 2 minutes and our video was already that length. The issue with re filming is that every shot needs to be the same length as the original. This was especially hard considering timing the words and cutting the shot was hard. When we plan on re filming other scenes we need to make sure that none are even a half second too long because then multiple fractions of a second can build up to our movie opener being too long. Attached is a screenshot of me editing the new clip into our video.