Rose Update!

Changes to plan

After carrying out our first filming sessions we found some flaws in our initial plans about how the film was going to work. This was due to many aspects such as what we thought would work best on the day and what just physically didn't work.

 

Our first change was the sounds that we decided to include in the film opening. We initially decided that we would have a voice over throughout of Rose explaining the situation. However after using the voice recorder and assessing what they sounded like we decided against using them as we felt they hindered our film instead of improving it. However we still wanted some dialogue in our film so we decided to include a shot reverse shot scene between Rose and Tommy when he helps her up, which had diegetic speech between the pair. This also helped to show a clear transition between the title sequence and the opening scene. 

 

Secondly we made changes to the length of both the title sequence due to problems with both scenes. The title sequence that we had planned just seemed too short to portray exactly how Rose would prepare for her first day of school and lacked the fast pace to show a rush. So we extended it which gave a greater insight for the audience which created realism by adding lots of different shots such as close ups of the shower and high angle shots of Rose doing her make up. Extending the title sequence also meant we had more time to put in the titles of the actors names which initially seemed to be an issue. We had also planned to film Rose falling out of her bed to create a sense of excitement. However when we tried to film the shot it just didn't work out like we had planned and imagined it would look like, due to the inexperience of our actor. Due to a combination of this and that the lighting wasn't correct as it was low-key opposed to our high-key lighting in other shots, we decided to scrap the shot.

 

The last change that we had to make was for the opening scene. We had planned to film a scene out the front of our school with the front of school in the background. However this came with several issues. Firstly we wanted to film our collision scene between Rose and Lucy-Lou here, after trying to film here we found that this wasn't going to work due to how busy the area was and we always had unwanted people in our shots. On top of this we also decided to setting just wasn't right as it did not look like a stereotypical school as there was no iconography that linked it to a school environment. Instead we decided to change the setting to the school corridor which include iconography like the stereotypical big school lockers. We felt changing the setting greatly improved the quality of the scene.