Conventions of what makes for a good shoot:

I also learnt important getting the lighting right is. For example, during the shot when the killer was digging a hole the sun was too bright, so we had to get three of us to stand in the way of the sun so that we could see the shot better. To make sure we didn’t have to go back and re-shoot, we shot each piece of footage three times. Luckily, we didn’t encounter any real problems. However, if I was to complain about anything it would be the weather. The reason for this is because it was about -2 degrees, meaning we couldn’t keep in costume for a long time. This would mean the shots would seem slightly rushed and the actors would slightly shiver, de-enhancing their performance. Apart from that, I felt we were lucky considering the fact it was winter and there could’ve been a possibility of snow, rain, fog etc.

During the editing, I had been using an Apple Mac for the first time ever. At first I thought it was rather confusing, although I got used to it over time. I learnt that it is more complicated to use than a computer as the layout was new for me

Problems I came across when editing were getting the right, exact footage we wanted onto Imovie. This was a challenge as we had so much to go through that we felt it was vital to get the exact ones we wanted on. Another problem we had was determining the fade-in/out time for each clip and what transition we were going to use. We easily overcame this by compromising and deciding on the best one. The main problem we had when editing was realising that we hadn’t shot the titles very well, so we overcame this by taking time to redo them and making it look better, which we did. What happened was we shot them when it was too windy so they were blowing about meaning it looked very unprofessional. We re-shot them inside so there was no wind. The final problem when editing was that some of the sound got mixed up put in the wrong place and cut altogether. This was a whole hour’s job to fix but in the end all it needed was re-adding on and adding the effects it had on originally.