Photographing My Final Sequence- Reshooting of the Given Image Take 2

During the photographing of my final "conversation of letters" sequence I took into account my feedback. I chose to add an additional shot to each letter put under the door. After a shot of a hand putting the letter under the door I will have a shot of the letter now under the door, shown from the inside of the flat, as if the flat owner has realized a letter is now there.
I will now show you photographs taken during the shoot and discuss why I have photographed the particular shots the way I have.

From the final feedback session I have realized I need to re shoot the given image once more. I need to add more width to the photograph of the two doors, this will imitate the given photo better. I also need to try to close the open door a little more to again imitate the given image, this should also make it clear to the audience the light on the closed door is from an open one opposite. Below are my new attempts.

 The photograph you see are the results from my shoot before any editing processes. I will need to crop and make the images black and white before I contemplate using them for my final sequence. I used a standard lens and tripod for the shoot. The tripod will help the consistency in my eventual sequence. The problem I found during the shoot was the position I would take the photograph of two doors from. The hall where the doors are located are rather narrow so I was unable to fit the whole of the door in my composition. Therefore I figured the only option was to photograph inside the open door. I would then need to crop out any elements like the light switch in the flat I was shooting in.

During the first few shots I wanted to see if the light from the open flat was light enough for the shadow of the door to be on the closed door. From the position I was taking the shots you could see my shadow on the closed door similar to the shadow in the above shot, I therefore decided to put the camera on timer to avoid unwanted shadows.

I closed the open door as much as I could before it disrupted the view of the closed door. I was very happy with the photographs I started to produce. The light was working well from a nearby window and when I eventually crop the images they will imitate the given photo well.

What made the photographs more interesting was the natural light that was coming from under the closed door, it will link to the light shots I take of the inside view of the doors with letter on the floor. During my narrative sequence I will be using a photograph of the closed door and open door over an over again to show the flat owners are coming out and putting a letter under the door, whilst photographing the door I have tried to add some shadows to suggest that a person is coming out. If I was to use an re shot version of the given image but with a shadow in, it would not be used as Shot 1 or the end image because there is no shadow in the given image, but the shadows could work well in the middle of the narrative.

As you can see in this image the door was closed just enough not to obstruct the closed door. The difficulties I found with my hallway and flats during the shoot were dealt with.

The flat door itself has no visible number on it, it has been scratched off. I will need a number on the door for my photograph to be similar to the given image so have decided to add a number onto the door using Photoshop. During the editing process I will also have to make amendments to contrast and brightness to emphasize the natural light coming from the open door and the hallway being dark.

During my narrative sequence I will need two versions of the photograph with a closed door with light from an open door on. The conversation will be switching throughout the narrative so I will need another image which will see the closed door seen in the photographs above open with the open door above now closed. Both scenarios will be in the same composition as the given photo. I could either take more images on the opposite side or could simply horizontally flip the edited version being used as shot 1 on Photoshop and edit on a different flat number plate. I have decided to flip the re shot version of the image first to see if it works otherwise a will photograph another set of images switching the flat  I photograph from.

Final Edited Version- Shot 1

I achieved this final edited version by doing the following...

•  Cropped the photograph so that just the closed door is seen, I have made sure that there is more width in the image than my previous re shoot of the given image. 
• I have flipped the shot photograph so the opening of the door for shot 1 is on the left like the given photo is.
• I have turned up the contrast so the hallway is darker against the light coming from the open door opposite. 
• Manipulated the flat number E5E onto the door, so that the two flats can be distinguished throughout the narrative. 

Overall I am pleased with my final retake of the given photo because I have taken all the elements from the given photo and adapted them for my location and problems found when photographing.