RC - Reccie (2) evaluation

HASTINGS

On Monday night Casey and I went on a filming reccie to Hastings in order to gather more footage and to practice filming our car sequence again. Although we have already been to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells to do this, these two locations were primarily done so that we could practice a wide range of camera shots, angles and movements and even though they did give us some indication as to the sort of location we want for this particular sequence, location wasn't our top priority.

However, this specific reccie to Hastings location was key, as we felt that Hastings would be perfect as a setting that represents youth and night life, due to the number of pubs, arcades, clubs and its well lit up streets. Therefore our focus point was to use these areas to practice and gather a collection of character shots to aid character profiles. We also thought that we could play around with our album cover idea in order to aid our digipak development.

We had high hopes for Hastings as we really believed that this could be a perfect location for our car sequence but also for shots of the characters all out together and having a good time. However, after completing this reccie, we were disappointed.

When we first arrived in Hastings we decided that we had done enough interior shots of the car and that this would be the perfect opportunity to experiment with external shots. From our continuous concept development we had a few clear shots in mind, one particular iconic shot we came up with was of the 'bad girl' walking down a street holding a pair of stilettos and therefore we completed this shot first. After doing so, we were reasonably happy with the outcome, although we thought the setting in which we carried out this shot was not the best, as lighting proved to be a problem. This confused both Casey and I as we both pictured Hastings as being a well lit location, which is why we chose the promenade for this shot.

However, after this initial disappointment we decided to carry on with our hope still intact, and therefore thought that the beach would be perfect for exploring our digipak album cover. Once we had captured a number of pictures for the album cover we moved closer into town in the hopes that the lighting would be a lot better there. It was then that we noticed the arcades and decided that filming in there could work really well as it was obviously well-lit and provided an atmosphere of playful youth. After recording in this setting and taking a lot of photos we concluded that the arcades could in fact work well in our video. Whilst filming we ensured that we also included a range of shots, using low-angles, high-angle shots, panning and pedding shots, including a 360 pan.

After exhausting this particular setting we moved again so to film more outside shots, where we focused on character profiles, in particular the good and the bad girl. When I

was filming I felt that a lot of shots were too posed and construed and therefore I secretly filmed Casey when she was oblivious, this proved to work well as I managed to capture shots that provided a realistic interpretation of youths having a 'good time'.

We then made our way back to where the car was parked and both decided that this would be the perfect time to practice a montage sequence and therefore carried out a photo reccie of me walking up to and getting into the car. We felt that these photos, once edited, could prove to be valid research.

It was also our intention on this reccie to come up with interesting hooks, so I used my camera to take photos of different shots that we felt were unusual yet intriguing...