During the production process of our preliminary task we encountered some problems which made it challenging to smoothly complete the task. We had the problem of our film set, making it unique and interesting in order to draw attention to the most important parts of the film part. We solved this by using our creativity and imagination to produce a room out of cardboard, paint it and add small props and materials in order to bring out the characteristics of the scene. This also allowed us to put our own twist and ideas into creating the whole scene setting from scratch in order to enhance originality.
Another problem which we came across was timing, as we had very little timing to complete filming and producing we had to use our free time to the best of our advantage in order to complete the filming in time to be able to edit. We managed to use free periods and lesson time to produce the scene settings and costumes for our characters as well as film our own version of the opening scene from ‘Rope’. Although we only had a short while to complete filming we managed to film the most important parts of the scene which capture the most detail.
A third problem which we discovered was problems with lighting and sound. The lighting was a bit of a challenge as the scene involved blinds opening and light coming through the window, this was a bit tough to reproduce however we managed to resolve the problem by using the lights to be off during the murder to produce a dark tense atmosphere and then turn them on to really gain the detail of the scene. This managed to work out very well as the tense atmosphere really engaged attention
Valid information was learnt about the production process, we learnt that in order to produce good quality filming the camera must me set properly and the lighting and positioning must be perfect in order to capture perfect images. Also editing was challenging however we learnt vital information on how to edit our scene so the length of the scene was cut down to 1-2 minutes and so that only the most significant images were used.
