Production Log

This production log covers the last week of our media work. Last Thursday was the 21st January, and me Matthew and Heather all met up to get as much filming done as we possibly could. We waited until around 7 o'clock that night so it was dark, which meant we could create shadows using lights to give our piece a film noir feel. We spent around 2 hours filming, using a street and an alley way that was fairly local to us all. After our filming process, the next day was Friday the 22nd, and we uploaded all of the footage we'd filmed the day before onto a Mac in our media classroom. Once it was all on there, we put it onto iMovie and edited the clips so they were in order. We added a black and white filter over it and added the soundtrack that Matthew had previously found. However, after putting our clips in order, we soon realised that there were scenes we were missing, and certain aspects of the film that didn't quite make sense. To fix this, we plan to meet up once more to film again to fill these gaps, and we've set a date for Wednesday 3rd February. We also saw that there was another aspect of the film we wanted to include, so we have filmed it and added it to our unfinished film on iMovie. The filming today (27th January) was done in a drama room. We pulled a thin curtain across the room and turned all of the lights out; then we used an iPhone for a torch light on one side of the curtain with me and Heather, and then a camera on the other side that was operated by Matthew. This made mine and Heather figures look like silhouettes, we we felt looked really good and added a further film noir type of convention to our production.
Overall, we felt that our filming process went fairly well, considering how low the temperature was that night. Despite the cold, Heather kept her character as the femme fatal by wearing her red dress, and I kept the character of the everyman wearing a suit. The actual filming was good, and we did a lot of takes of each scene to give us different camera angles to consider when editing. To improve our filming, we would of liked to have gotten it all completely done, because despite the fact that on the night we thought we'd done it all, when we actually went back through the clips there was stuff missing, which means we have to set a date to film again.