Second Filming Process and Decision To Change

Decision To Change - After filming a second time using a floodlight, to improve the quality and lighting of the footage, we uploaded the tape on to the computers. We found that the flood lights had made a vast improvement on the quality of footage and you were able to see characters and objects clearer, instead of the dark "grainy" footage we had before. The group then began to edit the clips and put the story together.
As this time we edited was after I had carried out deep analysis on many film opening sequences and whole films I felt that we had got the wrong impression and had been swayed off task. When we told to make a "Thriller Opening" we immediately tried to fit the the whole plot and storyline in to that 2 minute limit, in other words we tried to do too much and tried to make a thriller film rather than a thriller opening. For example: I felt that there was too much dialogue, there was no enigma being created, we didn't follow the story boards so much footage wasn't correct or not of good standard, the lighting was still dark or very bright in different shots and we were putting transitions in between shots so we could cut down on the amount of footage to squeeze in to the time limit. Also, because of these criticisms I was making, I wanted to dictate part of the editing process in order to correct these problems, which wasn't fair on the rest of the group especially as some didn't agree.
For these reasons I knew it would be wrong to force the group to change features of the project to my liking and so me and another member of our group decided to detach and create our own project.