Planning our test shoot

 The purpose of doing a test shoot before doing our real take on our opening sequence if for multiple aspects, To see how your idea will start to look on camera, How long the idea is and whether you have to make it shorter or longer, and to look at different technical aspects you are using like camera angles.

Idea: shipping container 

Location: Hurtwood basement hallway 

Characters: 2 males Preferably male (for this test shoot Elias and Raf Jackson) 

Camera: Raffie’s Phone 

Props: . Knuckle dusters - we can’t use for test shoot so instead we just used the hand

. Rope – instead of rope for the test shoot we will use a jumper to a chair 

. Chair 

. Purge mask 

. Security camera - We decided to film a shot as the security camera as we couldn't find the right substitute prop.

. torture tools – wooden cutlery

. blood – icing mixed with water (or ketchup) 

. Suit - As we had no suit we used a hoodie to cover up the face as much as possible.

we had to find ways around the difficult shoot. As we are using a shipping container for our main shoot of the opening of the film. For the test shoot we are going to use a dark hallway with a chair in the middle. For actors we asked one of our friends to act in it as on of our group members had COVID.

our Roles for shoot Raffie: Editor, BTS 

Sophie: camera operator and BTS 

Elias: actor BTS 

Alice: ill

Raf Jackson: Actor

The test shoot I think went well but we struggled massively with the time limit we had as we didnt have enough time to finish the shoot which resulted in the test shoot being shorter than we would have liked it to be.

I think to do this better we should have organised it before a bit more to see what else for props we could have used just to make it look a bit better and more visually accurate, and planned out how long to shoot for in advance but this didn't help as we had a shorter lesson than normal anyway.