Construction Post 3: Reflections on our Main Shoot Session

I believe our main shoot session went a lot better than our test shoot session. Mainly because we now had the correct lighting to make our shots much better quality, we had a lot more actors so were able to create a more realistic party scene and we had a much clearer idea of what we needed to film and how we would go about it (thanks to the mistakes made in our test shoot footage). We used all of the footage from the main shoot session apart from only 3 shots we had to re-shoot in a back-up shoot session. None of our shots turned out grainy and all the shots were generally well framed. For the main shoot session, we made sure we had music playing in the background of our shots to make our actors feel more comfortable dancing and act how they would usually at a real party. This worked well and we were able to delete the background noise in post-production. Our actors all arrived on time and co-operated very well so we were also very pleased with that.
The only shots we were advised to re-film was the slap scene and the upstairs bathroom scene. Our TA focus group were not keen on the "unrealistic" slap so we decided to change the audiences point of view with the slap so it wasn't so obvious it was fake. Also, because Noah fell into the camera with our first footage of the slap so we wanted to change this.
If we were given the opportunity opportunity to reshoot again, we would make the above changes and also try to make some of our shots more tightly framed, for example the first mirror shot of Ella had a lot of space above her head. But apart from that, I think we created some good footage.