the prisoner reprisal summary.

This piece was an example of what happens when timekeeping is lacking. We did not make a schedule in which to keep by so when we came to filming we were not organised and what made this even worse was the rain that came over Durham that week that made us change out whole production by setting it all indoors. Yet the biggest mistake of all was our last minute choice to ditch the script and make it a parody of our last production and make the script off the top of our heads. Since we hadn't written the script as a comedy/spoof the changes we made were not funny. It obscured the storyline as well so the audience didn't know what was going on. One of our downfalls was my idea to have me walking in the background, which rewind the continuity, this was supposed to be suttle and the audience was not supposed to notice really but in actual fact it was very visible and it drew the audience's attention.

Yet on the other hand taking away the story and dialogue I am immensely impressed with the shots I have taken. The over the shoulder shot in the hallway looks great. Also the first scene of the handheld shot looks great but it does go on for too long and the audience gets bored of more that a minute of dialogue.

In conclusion the big lesson I have learnt keep to the initial script and storyboard. Massive changes last minute may have flaws that are not considered at the time of making them. In my next production I will keep to the initail script ad storyboard and another thing I will need more people so someone can operate the cam so I can get some good two shots.