This shoot was the most effortless and natural piece, I found the experience extremely rewarding as I knew exactly what I needed in the shot and how to elicit the performance I wanted from my actress. The planning and execution of a test shoot really enabled me to loose any stress that came with dealing with the variables in this shoot. The costume and overall aesthetic is very similar to the test shoot so I didn’t need to change much.

As with all my final scenes I’ve decided to grade my footage in black and white/greyscale colours. I thought that this could come off a little “film student-y” but I don’t really mind as I think it gives the scenes a cohesiveness and also gives each scene more of a empty/minimalist feel to these simplistic scenes I’ve created. I think in each scene I’ve been focusing so much on the action,the framing and the beautiful aspects of each shot, and the grading enables an audience to focus on these elements more. It’s a turn around from my original idea of focusing on colour pallets but i think the greyscale, creates harmony and simplicity in these scenes.

Overall I’m quite happy with this particular shoot. I found it more difficult to edit as I was so focused on my original test shoot, and was so happy with it that I found it hard to not make it exactly the same. I think I actually prefer how the test shoot edited, opposed to this final shoot just because it’s more natural and spontaneous. Having said that, I’m proud of what I’ve achieved in this scene, If i was to take it further and do more and more test shooting (which I think I’d like to do in the future), I’d focus on the sound and possibly introduce a secondary character in the scene, as its such an interesting location.