Reshoot Day 4

12th of January 2017

On the 12th of January, Megan and I decided to do the last parts of our filming process. We decided earlier on to utilise our Media Studies Studio for our office scene. Although it does not look much like an office, it still represents a room in which a meeting occurs. Our character Larry, who is played by Ben Ward, is involved within these shots as well as Mirabell who is played by me. The studio proved to be a really good location to use as there are many lights in so we experimented with them in order to create a well lit environment as well as shadows for our footage.

In this scene, dialogue was used from our script in order for the audience to understand what was occuring between the exchange a little more. We also decided on action shots for my character to show off our techniques. It was apparent immediately that Ben was my character's boss as he towered above me. Like with the majority of our shots, we used a tripod in order to ensure high quality, stable shots during each piece of footage. We used multiple shot types of different varieties after doing numerous shot types in order to continue the theme of not seeing Larry's full face. This creates ambiguity within our film as well as showing thrilling effects within this technique. 
 
These shots took the longest amount of time as well as it being the largest sequence of shots. Megan and I chose to do multiple test shots in order to choose the correct angles and types, finally deciding on shot reverse shots mainly. This was so the audience could tell straight away who was speaking, who was more dominant out of the two characters and who was clearly taking the reigns. 

As well as this, we realised that underneath the black curtains were neon green ones which we needed to ensure was hidden underneath properly, instead of peeking through. This was due to the fact some green curtain was in some of the test shots. It took us a short while to ensure only black curtain was in the shot, however once we accomplished this, the shot was perfect. 

Ben, who played Larry, was very helpful as he bought his costume in to provide us with powerful mise-en-scene. This allowed us to be consistent with our storyline of Ben being the boss of me and Geraldine (played by Sophie). His suit was neat which contrasted with my scruffy suit, allowing Ben to be seen as more dominant and higher up than me as I simply worked for him which involved the exchange with the envelope.