Post 8: Production Report

Individual Production Report

Our filming process took around 60minuets, all of our process consisted of collecting the equipment (tri-pod, camera, tape), collecting our props (2 chairs), it also consisted of filming all of our scenes, re-filming scenes if we felt it could have been better, packing up and returning all equipment the way we were given it back to media.

I personally found the filming process fine, I thought that as a group we worked well to get all filming done in the time space we had, I don’t feel that we had any major issues when we were filming, I think that all team members contributed very good ideas witch I can only say made the filming time more fun, enjoyable and the end product better.

The filming itself I feel went well. When our actress Lalika had to go down the stair’s in the second scene, I feel she went at the right pace (speed), we did however re-film the shot 2 or 3 times just to make sure we had very good filming, to the best of our ability’s. Therefore we all knew that when Lalika went down the stairs, for continuity purposes, she would have had to go down each step with the same foot she had done previously, if the first step she took was with her right foot then she had to go down every time with the first step with her right foot. This just meant that our continuity was much better and much much smoother. Apart from that we didn’t have to many problems, the only other 2 problems I feel we had were, 1 – our actresses sometimes forgot there lines, but that wasn’t a problem, we just reminded them of the dialog and re-shot the scene, but lets face it, all actor’s/actresses’ forget there lines at some point. 2 – Miss Fisher had finished her P.E class and came through the corridor at the wrong time and started to speak, it wasn’t however an issue, she apologized and we just re-shot the scene, if any think I feel that the re-shot was better than the first shot.

I personally think that the filming made us work more as a team and made our work better as a result of that, I feel the whole project so far has been successful and the end product I think we be impressive.

When we watched the footage back i feel that it was good for unedited work, i feel that where different members put their idea's in for little changes it really helped, the footage even though it hasn't be edited look very good. I feel that i therefore have to congratulate every member of the team as all the preparation, all of the planning has paid off, there fore the evidence is there that planning and preparation has made our work much better. 

Changes

Problem - When we were looking back through the footage for a second time, we as a group realised that when we were doing the 'shot - reverse - shot', we had filmed with the camera to high, it was not at eye level witch meant that when (being the viewer) watching it, we didn't feel the connection of the conversation. We wanted the viewer to feel as if they are part of the conversation.

How to solve the problem - We will need to re-shot that part of the filming, when we are re-filming we will need to make sure that we have the camera at eye level to the actresses in the conversation, this way we will make the viewer feel like they have more connection to what is happening.

What will we need to think of when re-filming - when we re-shot we will need to think of what we are doing so we don't have thew same problem again, this means, double checking that the camera is at eye level so that when we go to watch it again we feel more of a connection to the action/conversation taking place.

Re-shooting

I feel that re-shooting went very well, we got all the shooting done in less time than we did the first time and we shoot more times to make sure that we had the right footage than the first time as well.

As a team i felt we worked even better with each other, i feel that our team work improved dramatically because we were all really focused on our goal of getting all filming in on time. as a result of that we didn't rush as we didn't want to have to re-due the filming for a 3rd time but we focus on getting all details in that there is no room for era.

After Re-shooting

i feel that the re-shooting was a success. looking back over the footage it does seem better than the first attempt. i can now see from watching the second load of filming that it is better. watching the second lot of shooting as a viewer i do feel like I'm more in depth with the conversation, were as at first i didn't feel like that was the case.