Change of Direction

As a group, me Megan and Dan decided to re-shoot our production, as thanks to audience feedback, we were able to realise that our film was not up to our standards. Within the production, there was little dialogue, and the lighting was generally dark resulting in several fuzzy and unclear shots. This could have decreased the amount of marks rewarded, therefore we decided to start from scratch, which was risky, however has now paid off. Caitlin Wevill said the following:

'The production did not have an impact on me as an audience member, as I did not find it engaging and felt that it lacked a clear storyline. There are also some issues with the lighting and the way that certain shots appear to be at completely different times of the day. I felt that because of things like this, it will not have the effect on the audience that you were aiming for.' 

Lighting
Together, we felt that the lighting overall was too dark in some shots, which resulted in a low quality resolution, and therefore an inconsistent quality. The production was inconsistent from another point of view also, as our establishing shot was filmed in the daytime, whereas the rest of the production was set in the evening/night time. As well as this, the area gets considerably darker by the time our character gets downstairs, despite it realistically taking 20-30 seconds, in which it would never get dark so quickly. The following two pictures show you both the difference in time of day, and the second shows just how dark some shots were, to the point where you can't make out Caitlin's face.

Narrative & Lack of Dialogue One of our teachers brought up how the narrative was difficult to understand. This was worsened by the lack of dialogue in the production. For example, when Caitlin enters the caravan, she says nothing, and her reasoning for going there in the first place was made unclear due to her not speaking along with the fact that the shot of the caravan curtains closing was from afar. The following image explains this. This was the defining point in the narrative, therefore if an audience member missed it, they wouldn't understand what was happening throughout the remainder of the film. Everybody involved with the filming of our production agreed to restart our project, as it was made clear to us that it required a lot of work, but would be easier to start with a new plot rather than altering the old one.