The Exchange.

The Exchange went well although it could of gone a bit better. I was in a group with Victoria Chetley, Courtney Smith and Kirsten Day. Before we set out to do anything we all took part in getting the pre-production sheets that needed doing, we all worked as a group and put ideas in for the Treatment, synopsis and storyboard. We then had to fill in location and health and safety for where it was going to be set, again we all took it on together and decided where it was going to be so we had a fair idea of how everyone wanted to do it. I was very happy with the way we worked together as a group and made it so everyone could share their ideas across and we could adapt them into the making of our film.

I done some of the acting in the film and filled in the storyboard to get the rough idea of how the story was going to go and if we changed anything we could just simply write about it in here. Me and Courtney decided to act in the film while Kirsten and Vicky filmed it, if there was a bit when there was just one of us needed then the other would get to film so we all had a chance to film something. Everybody had something to do and we all tried to help where we could, instead of one of us bringing things in for the Mise-en-scene.

It was a very cold morning when we went out and shot the film and I was rather excited to see all of us their ready to head of. Our framing for shooting was rather good and the opening to the short film, the pan of Courtney was one of the best shots in the whole of the shoting which I was happy with as I done it and even though I didn't do much shooting, I was happy with that and the little I done it came out well. We tried to stay with a steady frame all the way in with the shooting however there is one piece where Vicky zoomed in and out to keep us all the frame, this weakened the film just that slightly and even though we tried to fixed it we didn't shoot enough to help ourselfs out. We should of shot more so we had enough footage just incase something like this did happen but sadly we didn't. When filming we tried to stay with the rule of thirds and the 180 degree line rule, I was rather happy that we did and that our technical skills when filming were actually quite good not including the zoom, which would of been good if we filmed our film as a fast pased film. Sadly this was Vicky's fault but the whole groups fault because we should of done it again and filmed more footage. There was also part of the master shot that went on for way to long when I was walking up the path to meet Courtney but we only noticed this when we got into editing the shoot. So we decided to try and put flashes back to Courtney waiting to make it seem that little bit faster comapred to just a plain boring shot of me walking down a path.  Also while we were editing we thought if we turned it into black and white and uped the contrast it would give it that little bit more of being closer to a film Noir.  We also picked some music which was Noir thriller kinda of music to go in so it gives the audience that feeling that something is going on.

We then showed the class our 'Exchange' and they gave us feed back on what they liked and what they didn't. We all knew that the zoom was going to come up and it did, also we knew about the master shot and how it was a bit too long however they liked how we cut it up with it going back to Courtney. Our audience was to make people who like Noir like this and from what the feedback from the class was I think we made that clear. They liked our location and said it was picked rather well, they like the smoke and the icicles that were hanging from the pipe. Also our costumes and how we made Courtney look shady and me like a femme fetale went very well and they noticed it. However we could of added that little bit more and made it a bit more dramatic and more like a thriller. Someone also said about having a close up of mine and Courtney's face we had it planned but I guess we just forgot about it as it was so cold outside, we could of gotten a close up of the exchange to make it more clear to the audience what they were actually exchanging over. Even though there were some faults with it I think we done rather well and I am very happy with the outcome because we are still getting use to the cameras and the skills that are needed to use one.