EVALUATION OF OUR LAST SHOOT

Overall during the course of our last shoot it went very successfully. We kept our locations open and travelled around various places in order to suit our genre to the best locations possible. I think that we found some fantastic locations and used them to the best of our abilities. These locations were St Mary’s Cray, Bat and ball and 7oaks. We shot over 22 minutes of footage all of which was of a high quality and the group and I were very pleased with the way in which the day panned out. We decided to re-shoot the previous car scene and we were very lucky to get similar weather to the first shoot, it was extremely cold however which also matches the inner meaning of our title ‘Brass Monkeys’, which we also made reference to in one of the scenes by Mitch and I. At first Jonny wasn’t going to feature in our opening sequence at all, but we thought it would be good if he did on the day. Jon was able to do a very good job in the acting and now has established himself a ‘hard man’ character in our film. During the filming, we didn’t come across a lot of problems but there were a couple of small ones. These being that at the place we were shooting (outside St Mary’s Cray station) there were a lot of people walking about and we needed to wait until it was clear to perform certain scenes. Another one of these problems was that one piece of our footage was taped over which was completely accidental but we were lucky that we had numerous high quality back-ups at our disposal.
The use of various weapons, for example a snooker que, golf club, small hand held bats and a thick chain, helped us conform to the typical violent British gangster genre and made us all look the part. Another way in which it helped us get into the role of being a well groomed gangster was that we all turned up in smart clothing and suits to enhance the way the audience interpretates our characters and views our overall sequence, while becoming familiar with our genre.