Our gut instinct before we had even played our footage back was that it would be way too dark to be usable. This was due to the fact that the settings which we had had to use meant that we had to make a compromise between darkness and graininess. However, fortunately, this morning when we checked our footage, we found that although it appears fairly dark, the quality of the footage seems extremely high quality as a result of these settings.
Out of the footage which we have shot, we do not at this point think that we will have to re-shoot any of yesterday's footage as we feel that we were sure to re-shoot our shots to ensure that if one shot wasn't good enough, that we would still have more footage to go on, preventing unnecessary extra days of shooting.
As of now, we will be adding this footage to the final cut and see what it looks like when that's done. We will decide then whether it is good enough or if we need to re-shoot the odd shot again.
From looking through the narrative footage, we have tried to see what elements of Propp's 31 Narrative Functions we have managed to include and that are really clear in our video.
Complicity - this function states that the trickery of the villain (Laura) works and the hero or victim (Orrin) acts naively in a way that helps the villain. The way that we have created this in our narrative is through the relapse scene in the club. The actions that come from Laura as a result of the drugs causes Orrin to fall into her trap and then comes his bad trip right before he decides to kill her and get rid of the drugs.
Mediation - this function talks about how the hero discovers the act of villainy and is dispatched from it. We think that this is clear when Orrin realises that he is relapsing in the toilets in the club. He follows Laura to the toilet, they kiss for a little while and then the realisation hits that he has fallen back into her trap and relapsed on the drugs.
Beginning Counter-Action - this part is about when the hero acts in a way that will resolve the villainy and defeats the villain. This is the most crucial part of our video as this is the moment where Orrin kills Laura as he is getting rid of the drugs. This is the eureka moment in our video that tells the audience exactly what the whole narrative has been about and so this is a very important moment in our narrative.
Overall, we are confident that the way we have used these elements of Propp's 31 Narrative Functions has really helped us to communicate our narrative as clearly as possible.
These shots were taken in the house as Orrin goes out to collect his drugs from the dealer. We are really happy with how these shots came out in terms of the lighting etc. in comparison to the rough cut lighting in the bedroom scenes.
These scenes were taken in the alleyway and as Orrin is led into the alleyway by Laura. We are really happy in the last shot shown here in particular because we think the lighting is really effective as well as the expressions on their faces. They show how happy Orrin is to be with Laura and Laura's facial expression shows the almost evil concept behind the video which we really wanted to achieve.
These last 2 shots were from our nightclub scene. We are much happier with the shots we took this time. We have decided to keep some of the shots from the rough cut and edit them in with the new footage. However, we are so much happier with this new footage having used different lenses and getting much more different angles of the same shots which we think will be much more effective.
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