The Pointless Materialism edit and re-shoot

The weekend's shoot only took up one day out of the two, as the director, David Fine was happy with the footage we filmed on the Saturday. 

We all arrived at the Artswork Lab to capture the footage on the Monday, with the frustrating news that some of it was missing. Further to that, because we were working to a rough shooting script, there were many shots that weren't even filmed to begin with, that were vital to piece the film together. 

We took to re-shooting the lost film sequences- the weather was completely different than the weekend, making the film look mismatched on screen, which was annoying but we all persevered. 

The pick-up shots didn't go very smoothly as we were stressed and running out of time. I believed that continuity was very important to the film and suggested that a character's arm should appear at the right side of the lens and not the left [to continue from a previous shot], unfortunately the director believed otherwise and the stress of the day took it's toll on both of us. I don't regret having enough passion for the success of the film and speaking up though as it was later discovered that there were continuity problems. 

Setting up camp back at the Artswork Lab, we began to search for music and edit the footage. With the limited time available, we were unable to harness the help from the Bath Spa University music department. Instead we had to search the internet for music that could be used for free; this proved to be a difficult task as the director had a different vision for the message he wanted the film to project, and much of the music on the internet wasn't free to use. 

The experience of making Pointless Materialism allowed me to appreciate what skills I need to develop to produce the next film, but also, it showed me the importance of script meetings, rehearsals, a good shooting script and appropriately cast actors. 

Here is a great example of a shooting script to make your next film run smoothly:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/996161/There-Will-Be-Blood-shooting-script