Filming and pickups

Filming went smoothly apart from choreographing the fights, which took some time to get right. It was also rather lengthy due to the use of a single camera rather than 2 or 3, this created frustration between my actors to get the choreography right and the fact that they had to repeat it again exactly the same.

My actors (for the most part) were ok with costume. I chose my costume according to actor and to plot, Ben is wearing black in this scene against Will who is wearing white, this was not only to create contrast between characters but as a hint to the coming story. It basically being Ben turns evil, this is highlighted in the mise-en-scene because he is wearing black

I think a lack of pre-shoot fight choreography created problems, especially among the actors and me as they wanted to add stuff in and I wasn't completely sure how to shoot it. A lack of before and after also created problems as the shoot went immediatly into the fight.

I think a pickup shoot is necessary, this is where the director spots gaps in what has already been done and fills those gaps with extra filming. An example would be the fact that despite filming for 2 hours we only obtained 3-4 mins of useful footage, another would be despite me wanting the fight to be EPIC, the fight only became around 30 secs long and i came stuck.

If necessary and i cannot piece together the footage i have well i may consider a total re-shoot where i literally film everything again. I made sure I had all the footage I needed before calling it a day for filming 

After uploading the pictures onto my computer i have noticed there are some gaps that need to be filled in my film. My pickup shots will include:

• A more lengthy chunk of intensive fight
• Better planning and idea of camera shots
• Another camera man (to reduce time taken to film a sequence)
• Rehearsing of choreography
• A second shoot of any shots I didn't like