Production Reflection

The past couple of weeks have been very busy. On Wednesday me and my group went out to film for our short film and we had managed to take  a lot of good shots, that I was really proud of and luckily managed to finish everything in the time we were given , all shots did not take that long to film, and everything seemed to go very smoothly. While me and my group were filming, it was very enjoyable to do the acting, while I had one of Arman's friends to help filming when we needed a third person, which was very convenient. Even though there were many things during the filming process that were very fortunate for me and my group, there were many things that went down that was not very fortunate for us, such as when we first started filming, we originally planned for Matthew to bring his skateboard, which is going to be used in many of the scenes, but unfortunately he could not make it for the first day of filming, so we could not film the majority of the shots, and only managed to film the shots where there was a meeting for the student getting the job at the beginning. When we were filming the interview for the start of the short film the lights where we were filming were not working, and all of them were broken and wouldn't turn on, and where the areas we placed the camera, the only times where the lighting was perfect for all shots, we would end up breaking the 100 degree rule, so we just wen't with all the best shots we could get. When filming for most of the shots, since a lot of people did not know we were filming, we had some trouble filming at times where there were no people being filmed, that are not meant to be in the short film, and we had to wait till they were not in the shot, so we could actually film, unfortunately this happened for most of the shots, but luckily we managed to do everything in time. One change that we made during filming was the beginning, when where the film starts, we were originally planned to have a pan down to the table showing the two characters having a conversation, but then we remembered that we were supposed to start with one of the characters walking in a room, so we changed to multiple shots of the student walking in and seeing the boss, which ended up looking better then we originally planned it to look. The second thing that we had to change was one of the areas, due to the fact that we could not film in the Ilford exchange we had to change to Arman's study room, which actually was a better idea, since the room actually seemed like a place that people would have a meeting in, rather than the food court in exchange. The last thing that we had to change was adding parts to the film that were not originally planned to be in the film, since during the filming we came up with shots that we thought would make the film look better, such as adding a cutaway of Arman's hands, and the student with the mask standing outside the window, these shots made the short film look more professional than we thought it would, which was very convenient. Next time I would be doing filming for a media project I would make sure that I have permission for all areas that I am planning to film, and make sure that every member in the group will be able to make it on time for the filming, and lastly make sure that when filming, make sure that nobody that is not supposed to be in the film is in any of the shots.