Reflection 2: TV Scene Script

 

This reflection will focus on the group exercises where we were asked to produce a script of a scene idea made by one of our classmates. My group and I were tasked to shoot the script made by Francesca talking about two friends watching television.

We began by storyboarding the shots we would have liked to use, planning carefully where the camera position would have been with a birdseye view. This helped us plan and consider a large number of ways we could frame and see many options available to get the best result.

Storyboarding was something I never really had done before that time, and so I never was able to grasp how important it was, but after this exercise finally opened my eyes to the benefits of going through this phase which also helps your personal visualization on paper of what you are going to shoot in real life.

How it is obvious from the first video embedded in the post,  we had some problems with the white balance. At the beginning of the shooting, after we found our location, me and my group members adjusted the white balance helping ourselves with a white piece of paper but probably during the shooting someone must have mistakenly reset the value and the footage we recorded from there on out had an accentuate yellowish tone to it, and no one noticed the mistake until it was too late to reshoot. Nevertheless, I did my best to solve the problem in editing with color grading thanks to some video on YouTube, to make sure the colors were consistent throughout the whole video with satisfying results.

One thing I learned going through all these class exercises must be that not everything turns out as planned in preproduction and that, of course, something is going to wrong and might not work as you envisioned it, a thing I will surely keep in mind going forward in the future.