Production: How it went.

We have now filmed just about all of our opening sequence, and any additions to filming would be for elements that we did not originally plan to include.

On the 8th, we filmed a lot of our sequence, even recording audio from the traffic outside so that we can overlay this onto our whole sequence, so that continuity is better as cutting to different shots won't sound so strange (e.g. hearing a car coming closer in one shot, and then cutting to another shot and the noise of the car gone). 

We filmed many different shots from different angles and distances: Long shots, close ups, canted angle etc. But we didn't quite get things complete by the time that it was starting to get dark. Seeing as the shop is open Monday to Saturday, we came back on Sunday the 15th to complete our film. Learning our lesson from the week before, we decided to arrive at Spring Electrical at an earlier time than on the 8th - so that we could get everything filmed whilst it was still light outside. 

Upon our arrival back at the shop, we noticed that a lot of the products that Spring Electrical sell, were now missing or in different places on the shelves, which would have affected our continuity if we just decided to continue on filming from the last week. Therefore, we filmed the whole opening sequence from scratch. Not only did we manage to film the whole opening sequence, but I feel as though we were able to improve on many shots from the week before. Still, we will look through all of the footage filmed when we go through the editing, and might pick out certain shots from footage filmed on the 8th which we think were better than shots on the 15th. Overall, we are progressing well and things are looking positive for our opening film. 

Problems encountered:

Continuity from the week before - Solved by re-filming the entire sequence

Continuity in terms of audio of traffic - Solved by Overlaying a two minute audio clip of traffic outside, so that it all sounds more natural 

Voiceover acting in dialogue between daughter and sales assistant - Solved by simply trying over and over again to get a natural sounding dialogue. 

Acting for all characters on screen (apart from Phoebe's daughter character, as you only really see the back of her walking out of the shop so there isn't anything to criticize about her performance) - Solved by many retakes of shots, and even watching scenes with characters and reactions which were a little bit similar to what we wanted to portray in body language in our opening sequence.