So after the first shoot’s mishaps, editing and fixes I looked forward to a second shoot to try new things, new setting and seeing what I could work with. However it did not turn out as I had planned at all. I wanted to shoot a waiting room scene, with the ‘character’, waiting for an appointment, interview or something left to the imagination. However I didn’t have an office waiting room on hand to shoot in, so I improvised by using a wall and putting chairs up against it, to make it look like at least the section of a waiting room set. We tried a quiet sound studio as the set, however I had forgotten the dictionary prop. So it caused us to improvise a little bit, trying to have Jordan using a speech translator on his IPhone, practicing English out loud. All in all it just didn’t work. The room lighting wasn’t good, even with out own light set up. The room itself didn’t look enough like the right setting, and I didn’t see any editing helping that fact. As well as the speaking out loud was a bit ridiculous all in all. It was the culmination of poor planning and errors on my part I feel. Though it did show me things that didn’t work about the piece, that setting matters, realism in the scene matters and the dictionary prop is truly a key effective element of my piece. I look to try the waiting room scene shoot again, in a better more effective location, while remembering to bring all the props and be overall better prepared.
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