Weeks 7 & 8 – Olivia

Between the filming of our pilot and the end of week 8, a lot of brainstorming was done and many decisions made. We received feedback from the writers on Tuesday of week 7, mainly focusing on the actor portraying Duncan. They didn’t think he was energetic enough. With this feedback and more, we started to prepare our presentation for the Friday. We decided that we would shoot the remainder of the pilot (which we had shortened), before moving on to creating a more polished episode 2. We received some good feedback from our guests, both in relation to our plan going ahead and the pilot itself. Our group focused on a few remarks in particular, surrounding our use of “handheld cam” and the “dated” zooms. While we appreciate all feedback, these stylistic choices were made with purpose and we thought they all added to the story and episode. The next week we received some more specific and technical feedback from Robin, and settled our roles for the next shoot.  However, on Friday, everything changed and we decided we will reshoot the first episode in entirety, so we could incorporate all the feedback we recieved, improve on our mistakes and make it more cohesive (than filming two separate artefacts and merging them together). Now we are working towards this reshoot, with more thorough pre-production than last time.