Construction: Evidence of Reflection (Last Recording)

During our last recording we made changes to help improve our footage to get the best grade as possible. This involved preventing any errors occurring along the way as we had in the past recordings. This resulted in us delegating clear instructions to each person in our team.

Like the last recording we decided to gather 3 people to play the roles in our horror opening. This time we got two boys, one girl and we excluded Sarah. One of the boys who played our role in the opening was our own member of the group, this was advantageous to us as Sam already knows the script fully and knew what to do to make our shots correct.

We learnt how to level the camera via a tripod properly, this reduced the shaking of the camera work during the recording of the scenes. This therefore helped time keeping as we didn't keep messing up the shots and we didn't have to take any shots more than 3 times. We learned how to focus the camera correctly which in result made all the shots looked more professional and clear.

Although this was our last recording, meaning any mistakes would be irrelevant, if we had the chance to improve our construction of our horror opening we would make the following changes to resolve issues:

• Take evidence of filming in the corridor (First 5 shots)
• Make the text of the "DO NOT ENTER!" sign more professional or ominous
• Had less members of our group at the time of recording in the room to avoid distraction to the actors
• Have more dialogue to make it more realistic and lively
• Picked out what each actor would have worn specifically rather than each them wearing what they came into school with
• Put more props around our classroom setting to make it more believable that they were in a school environment
• Gather more retakes of Kai screaming so we have more shots to choose from when editing
• Used more methods to make the classroom seem more haunted, such as the AC turning on by itself or the door opening automatically.

In conclusion we feel that our recoding was the best we could produce with the deadlines we have been given, this is because our footage is of a good quality, everything flows fluently and fits perfectly in our editing process.