AICE Media Studies Production Blog: Victory Lap

     After long consideration, as you know from my last blog, I chose to redo most of opening. I was upset with the quality of my video, therefore I proceeded to reshoot more than 10 of scenes. My main problem was with the scenes involving my parents. As my actors, they did a poor performance the first time by constantly looking into the camera. So after sitting them down and having a conversation about what I deemed acceptable for this project, I was ready to reshoot. Although there was still scenes where they were still looking directly into the camera, it was minimum compared to the time before. Another change that I introduced was the removal of lines. I felt like with the script that I originally had, the viewer had no time to try and understand what’s truly going on. The pacing was very back to back with no break in between and after letting my brother watch it I knew there were things that needed to change. My brother had described the opening as “confusing” and I understood that that meant I needed to add clarity by removing lines. My mom had the most lines in the opening, therefore hers were cut to match the length of lines for the rest of my actors. Additionally, I removed the scene of my intruder being seen the first time. In the beginning, it was that my intruder was seen in the background of an early shot. But after the change to introduce him in a later shot after safety was established increased the chill effect produced by his introduction.