Did our footage match our expectations?

After all the process described in the past blogposts, our footage was the final outcome. Before diving deep into it I have to say Im really happy with how it went. As mentioned in the past posts, the footage has a lot of every member of the team. As all of us influenced in the final product. But the final product doesn't feel like a clash between everyones individuality, but a cooperation to preserve a specific aestetic. This was possible due to the deep research and understanding of the western genre of all of the members of the group. We all understood really important two aspects that our footage should have: dramatism, and transmit loneliness.

The dramatism would be transmited mainly through a slow movement in our main character. Which was achieved through direction and performance. It was easy in walking scenes, but for the shots in which our main character was diggging it was a little hard. And we had to play a lot with camera angles and several directions. In moments like this is where having the three of us directing to some extend was useful. As one approach towards the actor could be easier to replicate, allowing us to get in camera exactly what we wanted. 

The loneliness was portrayed through long shots, in which we engaged with making really visually appealing shots. So all of us worked together to preserve some rules of composition that will make this long shots where our subject couldn't be really appreciated into really appeling shots. Ofcourse the rule of thirds, designing through direction a route for our actress to follow and stay in the right third. And other rules like having the horizon either in the top or bottom third, so the audience can focus either on the ground or the sky. 

As I explained in past posts, our location planning wasn't the best, but our footage was able to be just as we wanted due to knowing what we wanted a deep understanding of composition. 

I think the shooting stage of our production hihglights how important the pre-production is in terms of recolecting information, knowing how to apply it on set. As it allowed us to cover any other problem in our pre-production by improvising on set and achieve our goal footage.