Production
According to our booking we
decided to shoot and prepared our setting which covering the walk to the dark
room.
1) The opening scene was “tracking”
Officer Gomez all the way to the “Interrogation” room so we filmed our tracking
first from the outside. A potential problem was the weather that was slightly
raining but fortunately it was light so we could continue to film.
2) Our extras were placed in the
hall creating the typical office. This was also to sort of, mislead the
audience that it was just a scene in a busy office they are watching, and then
they would discover the Interrogation of the criminal “Selina”.
A problem we encountered whilst
shooting this tracking scene to the dark room was maintaining the focus of
Officer Gomez and the extra’s; this was difficult to do, mainly because to
track we had to use a wheel chair it was hard to maintain and adjust each time
and effected the quality of this scene. But once we filmed this we found that
the lack of focus in the beginning did not look bad but created a nice effect
focusing on Officer Gomez as soon as she took her coat off.
3) We positioned our desk for “Selina”
and “Officer Gomez” in the dark room and left equipment needed for the sequence
in the interrogation. (Props used here:
Lamp-for the creative lighting, desk, chairs and a box recorder). Our
lighting was important in the dark room.
4) Another problem we faced was we
were very rushed to film quickly as the actors and certain members in our group
had to leave early. Thus the quality suffered a little in some Close-Ups of the
character, this is made evident by the lack of focus shot below. To overcome
this we used other scenes from the different set-ups during editing afterwards.
When we filmed, we filmed the
entire scene for each shot type, so that when it came to editing, it would be a
lot easier for us to edit, making the process as lot shorter.
I have learnt that we
should dedicate more time to shooting making sure all shots are in focus and
make sure the actors are available for the whole shoot. Overall we were pleased
with our shooting only to realise one major problem during editing…
