TK: Production Log - Wilderness Woods

• In our group of two, Mishaal and I shared the workload fairly equally. We carried out the location recce together, and explored the possibilities for different action moments and how we could film them, by structuring the plot around the environment we were given. Through this, we were able to each have a distinct vision in our heads of how the shots would take shape as they were edited together and created a meaningful (if simple) plot. 
• The main areas in which we differed was filming the shots themselves. Mishaal, who had more experience in film making than myself took the roles behind the camera, whilst I put myself in the position of our main actor, but even with our division of roles we still communicated our ideas and developed them throughout the process as an effective team.
• The experience definitely helped us learn how to work together in the field. It wasn't our first time filming together, but it was our first time building a plot and filming it together, so if anything it showed us just how much quality work we can get done in such a short space of time, from arriving there and scouting locations, to finally editing the piece together in Premiere.
• I was incredibly pleased with the outcome overall, but the shots that stand out to me most is the tracking shot between the trees where the camera follows the protagonist, and the final shooting scene at the end. Both of these took a lot of time and hard work to film, but in the end looked completely amazing, and really accented the outcome overall. 

• Our biggest challenge was probably time, and although we did carefully plan out our shooting schedule before lunch, we were quite late getting back to the rest of the group at the end of the day. Another issue we had at one point was weather, as we were unsure how intense or how long the rain was going to last, and Mishaal's camera needed to be kept dry and under cover. We were lucky however, and most of the day remained quite dry, a bit blustery and cold, although that fit the tone of our outcome very nicely. 
• The blackout screens just before the gunshot in the final sequence proved to not be as effective as I thought they might have been. This may have been an issue with the sound mix not matching up to our visuals, but whilst it didn't work too well, it also didn't detract too much from the atmosphere of the clip. 

• Overall this experience really helped both Mishaal and I to grow better used to working as a duo when it came to filming and editing together. It's definitely given us a lot of confidence towards creating our final production, and seeing the quality of both this and our Preliminary task has really helped us share an idea of what our final outcome will look like in terms of visual style, and the manner in which we will shoot it. It's also given us a lot of ambition. We want to go big or go home with this production, and with this and the Preliminary under our belts I'm confident that we're going to create something great.