Change of Location

Ultimately we decided that a school will be unsuitable as a location for a speed-dating event and we had to look around venues that these events take place at. Historically the first speed-dating event took place at Peet’s Café in Beverly Hills in late 1998 and it seems that bars and cafes are the most popular location to socialise in a friendly atmosphere but quiet enough for people to talk comfortably.

Our perfect location is the Miles Bar situated right in the harbour and fortunately one of our actors is their employee giving us easy access to the venue.


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Shot List

Below is the shot list which we prepared for shooting the exterior shots at Kent Steps.

Read Through

Before we went to shoot at our location we gathered our three male actors, Josh, Will and Cameron for a read through of the script so they could meet each other in a comfortable situation to discuss their ideas for their portrayal of the characters and any changes they would like to make.

Filming Day 1 Extended

A more thorough look at the additional production pictures uploaded from the second filming camera. 

Myself (red coat) documenting talent in costume

Cameron Smith in character as his double Carlos

Still frame of the camera

Night sky after a finished shoot

Editing

While reviewing the footage we took we decided that we would have to re-shoot the exterior shots as a result of sound interference by the diegetic sound of the street. After further analysis we decided to change our casting choices swapping the actor playing Harry with Matthew. 

Recasting

After showing our target audience some of the preliminary footage a majority of them united in the opinion that 

''Will Channing would be more suited to the role of Harry [while] Josh Smith had the ideal characterisaton to play Matthew'' - Chloe

Agreeing that we made a mistake in casting Will Channing as Mattew and Josh Smith as Harry we decided that as we were re-shooting the exterior scenes because of the sound recording problems, nothing was lost and we could recast the characters as well. Target audience's opinion is important to us they are of the age group, gender and class that would be interested to our product and catering to them is crucial to our film succeeding in the market. 

Teacher Comments

What's here is excellent-level 4 quality (17/20). still incomplete though-get researchand planning for second ancillary task uploaded!