Production Evaluation

Production  

When filming out Prelim, we encountered a lot of problems. Due to the absence of a member of our group, we had to film it more than once. The first time we filmed, we did a run though so we knew how it was going to look when we filmed the final video. It also allowed us to change any problems and timings needed to make it better. The second time we filmed, we had to we had to use another person due to the absence. This didn’t affect us as much because we were confident that the other person would fit in and work as well as the absent member of our group. Another problem that we came across was trying to find a location. The room that we previously filmed in wasn’t available when we had the opportunity to film the last few scenes. This meant that we had to film it all again in another room that was available at the time. This did set us back quite a bit because we had to go through the whole process of filming and cutting out footage again. Costume was also a big problem because we had to make sure that the actors in the prelim had the same clothes and hairstyles on both days of filming. But luckily for us, we filmed all of our final footage in the last day. In the planning process of our prelim, we as a group, created a storyboard. We thought this would really help us because it had all the characters positioning and the camera shots that needed to be used.  However when it came to filming our prelim, we didn’t actually refer to it as much as we thought we would. It did help us on the basis of positioning and camera shots but the timing didn’t work out as well as we planned on the storyboard. We also added props to the story board as a general idea but it turned out that we used a lot more than we thought we needed to use. Even though we had to overcome a lot of problems, we did learn a lot of lessons from this prelim experience. One lesson we believe will benefit us a lot from, was when filming out thriller we have to take into account how long it does take to film every bit of footage. We thought that because it was only a 30 second long clip, it would be really quick and easy to film. We were soon proved wrong when we realised that some of the footage we had filmed didn’t really work well with the other scenes, causing a problem that we had to film the scene again to make it fit in. Taking this experience though to the production process of our thriller, we think that all the lessons learnt will benefit us a lot because now we know what possible problems may arise during the filming and we also know how to overcome and work around them.