My review of our test shoot

 This is our test shoot for our media opening scene. It was very rough and was used to get an idea of what our opening scene would be like, and also to see if there would be any possible issues or challenges that we might have to overcome on the shoot day which we did not previously consider. Since we did not have the actors for the test shoot, we used Neave instead of Mathilde as the FBI agent, and she used a cartoon of juice as the gun as we didn’t have the props. We also used Callum as the killer instead of Mike. We also had to use a hoodie and some tracksuit bottoms to simulate the dead body as we didn’t have enough people around to have the dead body as an actual person. We needed to use a large place for the test shoot, as our opening scene contains a lot of the FBI agent walking around and searching the building, and so we used the common room.

The issue with the common room, which is reflected in the test shoot scene, is that it was tricky to emulate the searching of different rooms, which we will have to film in the real shoot as we want it to make it look like the FBI agent is searching the building properly. We also had the issue of other people in the common room in the background of the scene, but that wasn’t such an issue, and wasn’t something we could control during the test shoot.

Considering that it was a test shoot to see roughly how our real opening scene would pan out, I think it went well, however I think the biggest and most important part of the scene is the shooting of the murderer, and I think we need to pull that off better than we managed to in the test shoot.

I think it was a good idea to have a close up on the face to show how deranged the murderer is, but I think it needs to be smoother, and I think we also need to have more shots of the shooting itself.

I also think there should be more time before the shot in which the murderer and the FBI agent just stare at each other, or as an alternative option, the murderer tries to ambush the FBI agent from an unknown location, and so she has to react quickly to shoot him. If we can pull off the shooting, I think it will make the opening scene a whole lot better. Finally, the only other issue that we had is that we could not have dialogue between the dying body and the FBI agent in the test shoot as the dying body was played by a jumper and a tracksuit, but we will have to have this in the real thing.