Although I hoped to film this section in one long shot, I decided to film the scene from lots of different angles because I'd had no opportunity to rehearse and make sure that this was possible before hand. There are two advantages to having it as seperate clips: I could edit it together and make it fast-paced and accurately timed with the narrator's explanation of events, and I could avoid the location problem as much as possible. The biggest issue with this section of the film was that I had no better place to film it - my original plan (in one shot or many) was to include lots of close-ups of the characters and props so that the scene would have a dream-like quality. I wanted to clearly arrange it in a different way to the rest of the film so to indicate that this was a flashblack from long ago. The background in some of the shots (mostly during Zachery Bohun's lines) is quite unconvincing. I'm hoping that the audience feedback for my Rough Cut will reveal the audience's opinion of this scene. Having been filmed in my kitchen, I was able to decorate the table but was unsure how to solve the look of the walls so that it was more consistent with the style of the rest of the film. One thing I am hoping to do when I edit the scene is to adjust the lighting and try to disguise the pattern of the tiles. If this does not work, I can consider re-filming the shots from that angle in a different location, so that it all looks like one room.
I am dissapointed that I was not able to carry out my original plan, as this would have offered a much more obvious variation from the rest of the film. If I had the chance to spend more time preparing for this, I would love to invest more time in to this so that it would match my initial vision.
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