Overall, I’m happy with the final product and our pitch overall, but there is always room for improvement. After looking at our final proof of concept, i like what we were going for but there are aspects that we really need to keep an eye on when filming our final project. For one, the exposure and colours are all off within our proof. The colour grading was done really well thanks to Tash, but unfortunately there was no white balance done in the first few shots that we did. We only realised that a little too late and made sure that it was noted down in our list of things to work out for the final project.
Another part that I wasn’t completely happy with where the mushrooms. I thought they looked really good initially, but with the colour grading and the after effects that were put on them they just looked faker than i realised. We used the glowing after effect only because we couldn’t find a good enough “spore” filter to put over the top of the footage but we wanted the mushrooms to stand out so we had to do something with them. Isaac and I will be spending some time refining the props and searching for a spore filter that can be used for the final version.
Overall I think the shots are really nice, but could use refinement. Since we are going to be shooting the actual project at night,a lot of these shots will probably be changed to allow for more consistent lighting throughout. The sound design will mostly be done by Isaac, but the current sounds we have going on are a great reference point for where we are going with the atmosphere.
I think the pitch went quite well and we got some great feedback on where to go from here. I have a really good feeling about this project as our team is pretty cohesive. Our proof of concept shoot went really well, so i’m hoping that we continue to work together well for the real shoot. As the producer I have to make sure that we stay efficient during the night shoot and one thing I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for is that white balance and exposure of the shots because I don’t want to get to post production again and have to worry about using three different colour grades for the film, I don’t want a “fix it in post” attitude to this project.