Brief 5, Recreation of a scene

This weeks group; Adam, Francisco, Mayang and myself, I was lighting and Camera in this project and I loved it.



For this project we chose a scene from the film, London to Brighton, one of my favourite british films, we chose it because it was real and gritty, and we had the room for it. The scene in the real film is set in a kitchen, but we managed to turn my student bedroom into quite a good replica. Also seeing as most of the shots are extremely close up the audiences attention is barley on the background at all.
Something which really let us down in this project was the lack of a good actor (no offence Thor, we thank you) However in the real version the actor is clearly a real Londoner, a lot older and frankly a good actor.
We had such an actor set up all ready for a shoot on tuesday, unfortunately on that day university decided to break down and we couldn't get equipment, we still had our other actors and decided we would have to change shoot but we lost our lead actor.
Other than that we tried hard on props and costumes and did quite well, getting the cans and bottles and dressing Mundeer in an almost matching costume as in the real film. Luckily the two guys in the other room were topless so they were easy to dress.
Problems we had when showing the film were sound, however the sound is fine on this version and when we edited, so once again we had problems showing in class, looks like we didn't learn from our interview exercise however I'm pretty sure this can't happen again.
I really enjoyed being camera operator for this project as there is a lot of movement that I had to be careful to follow, but because we were in such a tight space it was hard for the director to come and check the frame before shooting.
Lighting as well was good, but as you can see not quite spot on, there are bits where Arielle's face is almost completely shadowed,  which never happens in the actual film.
This project has made me very excited about making films which are entirely our own, our own story, script, it would make us all feel like we have achieved something on our own.