Production: Reshoot

  This blogpost explains our decision to reshoot multiple times and the ways, we improved on our footage. It also addresses key difference between past revisions and our final video and why those decisions were made.

Shoot: 1

For the first shoot as you can see its very rough as I was shooting the video and this was my first time operating the camera so the camera movements were not flexible and the shots were less than optimal as well we hadn't practiced the fight choreography before hand and we had to basically make it on the spot that's why the fighting felt slow and stiff. 

Shoot: 2

Link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/16gXSWqkI_Ou0ymEVO2qjSk0ND6B7SWYN/preview

In the next shoot we decided to swap over the camera duties to our group mate Kenzo as he was more experienced and better behind the camera as well we used the experience from the first shoot and feed back from our teacher (which was to add more camera angles and cuts) to experiment with different camera angles and improve our fight choreography as the first shoot acted as our practice. As well we decided to overhaul the opening sequence where as in the first shoot the opening opened with Mark Choi going up a stair case which made for a very mysterious opening with hermeneutic codes such as who is this character as it started with a back shot of him concealing his face but then we decided on Mark Choi instead riding in on a motorcycle which made for a very cinematic action packed opening and also this characterized him as a cool character and helped conform with genre conventions of an action movie.

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Shoot:2

However in this 2nd Shoot we decided to bring in our friend to be another character. He was first seen in the toilet as Mark Choi tries to find an entrance. We wanted him to be some sort of bodyguard or the boss's goon and to avoid a plot hole of why he didn't during the fight we decided to make him help the boss defeat Mark Choi and the problem with this was that his introduction and scenes was far to long this made our video over shoot the 2 minute maximum time and to the overall story he was unnecessary so we made the choice to cut him for the next shoot. As well another problem we encountered was a continuity error as we took a long time between takes and thus the time of day between the shots were different and thus the scene cut from day to night and for that is why we decided to reshoot for a 3rd time.

Shoot: 3 (Final)

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFx8CC9fU2o7wIcz1Eyw5h3BxiHkKGG7/preview

In the 3rd shoot we just learnt from the mistakes from the last 2 shoots and applied them to make the best scene. As for the sequencing it was mostly the second reshoot but removing the unnecessary character and refining the choreography and camera angles/movements.