February 16th, 2011
Athens, Greece
Reshooting scenes is a part of the low-budget film process but it’s still pretty tedious. First of all because we don’t know certain shots were ruined until they get to editing, like the boom being in the shot, an extra’s foot just barely in frame, or a continuity mess-up. Or, since our actors are all completely new, we have times where we need to reshoot because they forget to react to a ‘funny’ circumstance or something along those lines. Basically with a student production like this, there are so many variables that inevitably come into play to where reshooting is necessary and today was one of those days.
In order to be the most efficient and since we only had three days in the airport, we shot any and all scenes that didn’t have to be in the airport either at our apartment or at the Deree campus. Throughout the program it’s quite obvious that the actors have grown immensely. When they started off they were stiff and followed exactly with the script, but now at week eight in the program they’ve begun to improvise and their reactions more closely fit the situation. We had originally filmed scene 49, or a janitor’s closet scene, in the first few weeks of the program when the actors were still inexperienced. When reshooting this scene the chemistry was much more pronounced and the scene flowed together beautifully.
Today was one of the days that I can see growth throughout the program and I am thankful for that. Sometimes we get so caught up in just getting things done we don’t stop to realize how much we’ve learned along the way. Videographers used to take an hour to set up a shot, now they take thirty minutes. Audio used to hold the boom diagonal instead of flat, everyone used to give advice to the actors and now it’s only the art director: everyone has found their place on set and knows precisely what needs to be done. We make such a great team!
Learning as we go,
Susie Dobkins
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