Construction Post 23: Reflections on our Main Shoot Session

I think our main shoot quite well, as we took all of the shots we needed and had a fun time doing it. My favourite part of the filming was using the new lighting equipment that we hadn't used in the test shoot, as well as coming up with new ways to film some of the shots, such as the hidden camera shots we took of Toby and the camera person walking down the stairs.

OUR BEST SHOTS:

Shot 5.

This is shot 5. We changed it from the test shoot, as it was originally just a shot of Toby waking up, which did not make sense as part of a documentary style film. Instead, we changed it to a shot of watching Joyce go to Toby's bedroom to wake him up with breakfast in bed on his last day at home. I think this shot was really good because the handheld camera movements work well as part of the genre, and it worked much better in the narrative. Additionally, I think it was well constructed considering the small space we had to film it in.

A bonus shot.

This is one of the bonus shots we took. I really liked this shot because we recorded it with Toby singing and playing the guitar, so that we could use it with or without audio. I think this will be a really good shot to cross cut to in an interview, or to use as filler between shots.

Shot 17/19/21.

This is Joyce's interview shot (shot 17/19/21). I think Joyce's interview shots will always be my favourites because of how well my mum acted the part. She performed really well and managed to direct her lines perfectly when embodying the character. I also think that the choice of lines was good, and they are effective in representing her middle-class-edgy-white-mum character.

A bonus shot.

This is another one of the bonus shots that we took on the day of filming. I think this shot is really effective in conveying our genre to the audience, because it shows one of those typical daily life situations that are sop mundane, but are always in documentaries. We have put a twist on this however, by adding the fact that Toby is invisible, which, I think, really conveys the documentary genre.