Above are some pictures from behind the scenes of our narrative shoot. We chose to film in the beginning of the summer holidays so that both our actresses were available and so that we would prioritise the shoot.

Across two days we shot our narrative – day one was located at my house and we adapted the lighting in my parent’s room and cleared the dressing table for our bride to get ready for the wedding. We dressed her in a satin robe so that this costume represents how any bride would be on the big day, we directed her body language to be nervous and wary as the narrative is that she doesn’t want this wedding and finally we made sure to get a variety of angles and shots including close-ups, mid-shots and various shots from behind her but focused on the mirror to give us an interesting range.

On the second day of the shoot we drove down to St. Apolline’s Church – a small church where it would be empty and available to use so that we could film the main action of her deciding not to go through with this wedding. Additionally, we went to Les Amarreurs and Ladies Bay to film some action shots such as handhelds of the bride running away. In keeping with our altered narrative, the bride runs away to be with the girl that she likes so we also shot them bonding and meeting each other on the beach to close the story.

In summary…

Positives:

• Good use of three locations to use the ‘rule of thirds’ and split our narrative into three sections
• Used our shot list and PMA to get the wide variety of shots wanted from each action and location
• Worked faster and more efficiently as actress was more familiar with cameras.
• Utilised MES with the wedding dress and veil
• Got out of our tripod comfort zone and filmed handhelds and canted angles relevant to the action
• Practiced two-shots as we now have two characters

Improvements:

• MORE attention to detail with MES e.g. painted toes and fingernails, same makeup etc
• Maybe just a few more running shots for consistency