Reshoot- 12th of January

Reshoot - 12th January 

For our last reshoot session we decided to use the location of the media studio as we required a dark room which does not appear to be a normal 'office' yet still appears to be a meeting room for the character of 'Larry' and his employees. The studio also allowed us to experiment with lighting and shadows which we had planned to explore. As we utilised the studio's space we decided to dress the set of the 'office' with some stationary supplies and other props to have a continous balance of mise-en scene.

The scenes contained dialogue and some action shots of Chloe's character who was asked to join her boss. The tripod was used again in this shoot to ensure shots were stable and did not seem of a low quality. The shot types were varied as we did not want the character of Larry to ever be seen fully in a shot to create an atmosphere of ambiguity. We decided to utilise various angles to show the differnece is status and illustrate the hierachy of the two characters played by Ben and Chloe.

The reshoot was the longest and hardest we have completed as it required many test shots and various cuts to ensure the shot-reverse-shot edit could be achieved with some individual effective shots to depict the conversation and action well. The lighting was tricky to decided as we knew we wanted Larry's character to be well lit as this would contrast against the black background of the studio portraying the contrast of character types in the opening.

The studio provided some obstacles that were easily overcome, an example is the black curtain which did not cover the entire green screen in some shots. To fix this we repositioned the set and curtain in test shots until the most successful set up was found and used. Our actor Ben was helpful in overcoming any mise-en-scene and representation issues as he provided his costume allowing us to have the 'suited' and 'scruffy professional' characters we required in the scene.

The Larry character was essential in the scene to create the desired narrative, Ben enhanced the role by providing the costume we had planned for him to wear in the office scene. The scene was effective as we had incorpirated many shots and an interesting scripted section of dialogue that allowed us to play around with the characters. Both actors were completely reliable and helpful in creating an effective series of shots.