In Monday’s class, at the presentation and table read we were able to get feedback on how to improve our work and suggestions on what we could do alternatively. 

One piece of feedback from Stacey that helped our work become more cohesive was understanding what era the spy agency and agent Whyte would be from. This would inform the way agent Whyte would act, react and speak. We had already written our script and the language that agent Whyte was using did not match with the 60s, as well as some technologies (eg. revolving doors) had already been invented. An alternative that we thought about was making Whyte travel back in time instead or be from another planet. This was hard because we had most of the draft done and we didn’t have time to do major changes. We ended up researching more about the 60s, changing her language and reactions to situations in 2024 and also leaving it up to the audience to interpret the era. 

Hannah said that there were lots of descriptive words of how the actor should act within the script, which takes away from the reader inferring how the reaction would be, as well as taking away from the acting. Therefore taking this away helps me portray emotions more naturally, instead of being told how to react. 

I was able to make the props that we used in the film. One example was the file which I had lots of fun curating. Taking inspiration from police documents and investigation files from other films informed this creative process. 

After working out the logistics of the film, we were able to finally shoot our film. The filming process was definitely the most tedious process even with all the preparations we did beforehand. Arranging times to film, going to locations, setting up lighting, testing audio levels, changing camera angles etc. Even with Bobby’s printed out shot list and camera angles, it definitely took a few takes to get the exact one that we all wanted. We all understood from all our experimental sketches that the more angles and takes the better and more room to explore more. Things that did go well was our group’s ability to give suggestions and constructive criticism throughout the process, which helped build upon and improve our overall vision for the film. To improve for Sunday’s shoot I believe we should continue to do many takes and get the technicalities like camera work figured out as fast as possible.