Sweed Evaluation

Although we did not actually fully complete the sweed, we practiced filming certain shots, highlighting difficulties that may come when we start filming our main production. Things like lighting, sound were more difficult, as we were using poor cameras, that do not pick up much light, or quality sound. Although our scenes were very bright with good lighting, doing this practice helps to highlight how much light is needed to light up a scene effectively. Things like not shooting straight into light so it over exposes, setting white balance depending on the type of light (natural or artificial) that was available or most available, so the shots were not orange/blue, setting the aperture, depending on how much light was in the scene, so we could choose how much light we wanted to let in, etc.

Composition, was important to practice, making sure not to make the shot feel to crammed, or too empty. As we were following the trailer of Mean Girls exactly (copying shot types and story etc.) we some times had to adapt to the environment as certain shots were not possible at the location or time.

Things like sound, and picking up sound was difficult for some scenes, as there was quite a lot of background noise. This made the shot unusable. in an ideal world, sound would have been recorded separately, or with boom microphones rather than a poor phone microphone.

Shot scheduling was a difficult task, as you need to take into account when actors and cinematographers are available to film. Creating a schedule helped to decide when we were going to film certain scenes and helped to keep the sweed organised and to manage the time effectively.

Overall, this helped us to practice and give us the experience so we don't fall into later problems or difficulties in production, that could have been ironed out with a practice.