Storyboard Changes

As the title says, we needed to make changes to our storyboard, but these did give us an oppurtunity to make creative changes. We had to make these changes due to the camera I mentioned in a previous post has still not been found, so we decided we would improvise some filming, but we did not make these changes on our storyboard, as if still shows us in the area we did not have permission for. The loss of the camera was a setback as it had several great shots on there that did take some time.

The second reason was because the film ran over the 2 minute mark, surprising considering we had lost some footage. Meaning we had to chop and change several area's of our film, such as taking out shots and crop shot timings, but so that they weren't noticeable to ensure the plot still made sense.

This did provoke alot of debate in the team, such as 2 would want to keep some shots and lose others. It slowed our momentum on the piece which we have picked up considerable pace on since we've finished our filming. Such as leaving some talking scenes in because that allowed the audience to follow the plot.

One easy choice was to keep all the chase scenes because they took considerable film time, and are arguably some of the best shots in the film, and these shots set the pace for the film, which we felt was a cross between action and crime, and these shots helped it to hit the action critera.

And a certain two shots we kept above all others was: the bridge running scene since it took several takes and we all thought it was a great shot. The second shot was when the camera was at a high angle (our version of a jib shot) and the characters run underneath it. We felt this was an outstanding shot because it was different and we were sure nobody else would have thought of it, Promoting our creative personalities.

Now all we need to complete are a few voiceovers and the putting the background music in. This should be no problem compared to some of the issues so far, however it has been a good learning curve for the whole team.