Summary

In this production cycle we needed to rehearse and shoot a film using the story board that we made to week prior and the marked script that was provided to us. This phase was structured a bit differently than production has been done in the past because we were not our own actors but instead had another team act for us this creates many benefits but also presents new challenges sine we now have to direct people to act out a scene that they may not be full comfortable with.

Production Notes for Each Day of Shooting

Day 1

expectations

We need to rehearse and make sure that our actors know their lines and what they need to do for each shot so that when we record we can get it done quickly and effectively.

what was achieved:

We were able to rehearse the script three times but it seems like we may need to do one last test run tomorrow so that the actors fully understand what they are suppose to be doing and to make sure it has the feel and look that we want.

ways to solve problems:

In order to make production go smoother we need to review our story board more so that we aren’t slowing down production by constantly checking were we are in the shot.

Day  2

expectations:

We need to practice the script one last time and then record our shots as well as upload them to one of our teams computers.

what was achieved:

We were able to get all of the shots we needed and upload them to the computer but we need to push audio recording to next week because our sound designer was absent.

ways to solve problems:

Overall the best way to solve our problems is to coordinate better with all members of our production team so that we can plan and not be taken by surprise since it dramatically slowed down production.

What I learned and problems I Solved

Overall the main thing that I learned during this production phase was how to block as scene as well as communicate with the actors so that they knew what I wanted them to do in a scene. The only problem that we ran into was that the lighting in the are was sort of weird but this can be fixed with color correction during the post phase. Along with this our sound designer was absent so we had to find a way to plan around that but over all the production went smoothly.