Last weekend we had a chance to film our missing scenes in Park Wood. The second scene starts with a conversation of Grace and Chloe near the kitchen table.
This week after filming our missing scenes I have managed to prepare a general rough cut of our movie.
What I learnt:
- The conversation scenes has to be combined really carefully- I experienced a difficulty with a small jump connecting two continuing shots- the eyes of the actress were in the slightly different position. I had to make sure the eyelines between the characters work, like I found out on our lecture and youtube video. I found a solution though, and I managed to use mid shot with the same part of the conversation, instead of a close up, when the eylines didn't work.
- The colours- I have noticed that the colours are too bright and yellow. I used the fast colour correction to the opposite colours like blue and changed it. It looks much more natural now and it gives the accurate imression of the evening.
- Mixing with different shots all the time makes a movie much more interesting. We experimented with all kind of shots.
- Changing the subject during the conversation makes it more clear and interesting- I have managed to combine the scenes in the right order- when Chloe talks the camera shows close up on her and changes to Grace when she talks. Isn't it much more interesting than showing two characters at the same time, sitting near the kitchen table?
- Now I know, that the rough cut is a way longer than our actual movie should be. That is just a first step and when you view it again you realize which scenes you have to reduce. Our movie has 4 minutes now, so there is still 1 minute to reduce.
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