Footage: First day filming Vs Second day filming.

Here are a few examples of our first day shooting. As you can see from the three examples of footage, the tripod makes a number of unscheduled appearances as well as a bumpy ride along the pavement mid pan. A  'vlog' regarding our 'first day filming' features above this post, please take a moment to watch it and then continue reading otherwise the following information will be unclear to you.
After this vlog was posted we began editing and realized that on our second day filming we actually managed to collect a substantial amount of high quality footage. We proceeded from this by deciding not to re-shoot the first half of our thriller. Our reasons for this are;
- As a group we feel that our second half was much stronger in terms of lighting, location, variation of cinematography and mise en scene.
- It was evident that a strong claustrophobic atmosphere had been established and was maintained throughout the second half of our thriller, something that the first half lacked.
- The first half of our thriller seemed disjointed when we placed it alongside the second half, they seemed too diverse and was not complimenting each other the way that they should have been.
- The first half of our thriller seemed very similar to that of many previous a-level media students. There was your typical long shots of walking, surroundings of trees, a scary man taking a vulnerable girl in a suburban street etc whereas the second half of our thriller bought something different, something that veered down a different route towards a more disturbing and uncomfortable content rather than a scary, jumpy or gruesome content.
- As soon as it starts we want the audience to start asking those mental questions 'Who is she?' 'What happened to her?' 'Why is she here?' 'What will happen to her?' 'Who's responsible for this?' not be going 'Oh she's in a field alone ... Now there's a man ... Oh he's going to take her ... Oh he's taken her'. The first half of our thriller would have been as predictable as this, whereas our second half  poses so many questions for the audience, making it more successful in engaging and 'hooking' our audience, which is predominantly our main objective.