One of the criticisms received in the feedback of our first draft was that the ending let our production down, to correct this issue we decided to re-shoot the whole last sequence scene. We scheduled re-shooting for the 23rd February 2012. When it came down to shooting we decided to change tact a little and film with both a film camcorder and a digital camera to give us a stop motion effect. Below is some of the footage we managed to capture on the digital camera which I have put together.
Sample footage of our new Flight ending.
As you can see we used multiple photographs taken seconds after each other to create this animation effect. We decided to use this technique instead of cutting up film footage, which is what we had previously done as we found that this technique was a lot smoother and therefore created a more professional look. Within our final film I am going to experiment by speeding up some of the photographs and other down, to add effect to key moments in the scene, such as the passing over of the drug. This technique was used within the Sherlock Holmes production (see here) and I found that it made the footage very interesting and dynamic. When looking at the footage we captured above, I do prefer this ending to the one that we previously had filmed (see our first draft here), I feel that this technique is definitely a lot better and makes our film look more professional. Although I do like this technique and ending a lot better I still wanted to get the opinions of our audience members so I uploaded both endings to Facebook and then set up a poll asking users whether they preferred our new ending or the old one.
13 voted for the new ending, 5 voted for the old ending.
As you can see from the results of my poll it is clear that the audience preferred the new ending and when asked to elaborate they stated that they thought the new footage was a lot clearer and smoother, they also said that it made our film more interesting and professional.
