Shoot One (Please view memory stick for footage)

To begin with, my first shoot consisted of interview a friend of the family Pat McQuew, who was born in Ireland, raised in Glasgow and has retired having chance to catch up on things like comedy. Pat was very keen to be a part of this shoot and answered all my questions clearly, giving me some extremely interesting facts about how he used to know Billy Connolly back before he was famous. In this sense, I felt the shoot was successful in engaging and collecting interesting information that the audience would be able to learn and picked up on. However, there were many issues with this shoot that needed resolving. For a start, it was difficult for an audience to understand what questions were being asked as they were not repeated by the model in order to grasp a direction. This is my own fault for not pushing and encouraging the model to do this. I am the director also of this film and therefore need to go beyond my comfort zone of merely staying behind the camera. Another issue to raise is that on closer inspection, the whole shoot was a little out of focus which is a silly mistake to make and can be resolved if I just make absolutely certain that such things are ok before I shoot. I think observing them on a larger screen would also be more professional as well as good practice. I was content with some element of the lighting but the overall look is quite dull and therefore I needed to have used more added lighting. Moreover, the angle of the camera and the framing is too full on which cuts the model too high up and becomes of centre. Equally, the door handle in the background becomes a distraction and the audience loses grasp of things. These things can be resolved by reshooting but this proves to myself that such things must be carefully thought out during the shoot and will save time in post production or reshooting. Here, I am content with this first shoot because it has given me many things to think about in order for my final piece to be better. These are small things mentioned but are crucial in getting a film right. I will now organise another shoot, but this time with a younger model in order to gain differences in answers. I am conscious of the time limit of this project and therefore, if I have time I will reshoot this interview but if not I can rest reassured that this has helped my project forward by being done as a sort of initial test shoot.