Update on progress

After seeing what I had produced for my first rough cut, I thought it would be best if I do another one to give me more of a visual idea of what my real product would be like, as my first rough cut was not really good enough in my opinion. My second rough cut will be posted shortly, but what I have learnt so far from it is that adding footage makes it look much better than just the focus on the pictures and by allowing myself to re-try and create a better version of what my final product will look like, has given me more experience into both stop framing and filming. For example I spent much more time in taking pictures, allowing the shapes to move less to allow more time for each characters introduction and also for more realistic movement. I also made sure I took the advice given from presentations I have previously blogged about, adding another character from a different ethinic background, which has also helped boost the amount of time that the opening will be. Camera's are difficult I find, as when taking pictures sometimes the lighting will change, and so I have learnt I need to change the lighting settings to make sure that that is decreased, this also helps the product look more authentic. Footage is hard also for the same lighting reasons, plus getting everyone together to get the footage done, and the space in which to do it in. I had to make sure that I got my actresses to play out their waving etc. to have more duration to their filming, I only asked for them to do 5 seconds each originally, but after editing my second rough cut I realised that it isn't enough, and so getting more footage is much more efficient than getting less or your own estimated amount, as any extra footage can just be cropped out.