Re-planning

After editing some of the my footage from London, I was finding it difficult to cut everything smoothly with each aspect of the journey to the station not really linking and working as a final piece. After a first viewing with Simon, he suggested that I reshoot my footage using someone else as I wanted the mood and vibe of the video to give the impression that the character Natalie is rushing to get the station. In the script, she is struggling to reach St. Pancras in time to make her train but this did not come across in my footage as she looked quite calm and casual with not much facial expression. I have asked Laura to be in the reshoot and have decided to shoot the video in Rochester as this will be much easier to navigate and should allow each clip to cut more seemingly as the locations won't be too different. London was a very busy location to film at because of all the people and the general atmosphere of the city. Therefore, I will have more time in Rochester and a calmer atmosphere to work in to ensure I get a much wider variety of shots that I can edit more easily. The location will not accurately reflect my script but for the video to work as a final piece of work, I am going to aim to get across the idea of someone rushing to the station with very little time to spare in order to create tension and excitement for the audience to really engage them. I will pair this footage with some very fast paced music, eliminating dialogue so that it is quite quick and dramatic.

Shot-list 

Location: Flat 

- Medium shot - bedroom, grabbing items and walking out of the door
- Long shot - walking down the stairs
- Long shot - walking through hallway
- Medium shot - walking towards door, shot from behind
- Extra long shot - Front door from outside, leaving and walking towards the street

Location: Streets

- Tracking shot - over the shoulder walking up street
- Long shot from the side of Laura starting to run up the street
- Medium shot - from the front showing her expression
- Medium tracking shot - road in front, showing point of view
- Extra long shot - Laura crossing the road
- Close up of Laura looking concerned
- Tracking shot over the shoulder
- Extra long shot - Laura walking fast round the corner
- Extra long shot of the station, point of view


Location: Train Station

- Medium shot of Laura rushing through the doors
- Medium shot of the station boards, then again of Laura scanning them for her train
- Long shot of her walking through the barriers and round the corner
- Medium shot walking down the stairs
- Long shot of train coming into the station
- Long shot of Laura getting on the train

Storyboard
For the storyboard, it wasn't too difficult to adapt as I had my original story board and shot list to look at where most of the shots and angles could be used again. The story itself is still the same so I just needed to consider a new location and how I could use that to tell the same story so that it wasn't too altered. Here I have included two pages from my new storyboard.