2013 Post 21: Production Report

The production process to create our film was the most challenging task given to us and in our group we had to work as a team to complete the challenges given. We were all very excited to begin filming and we thought that this would be the most exciting part of our project; however half of our group did not have past experience within filming so we come across many unexpected errors that we had to face and deal with. The main errors that evolved in our production process was the time that our actors had, we found it very hard planning dates and letting all of our cast know when to be available so next time we will spend more time in planning and letting members of our group know when to be available for filming. An example of this was when we were trying to film the swimming pool scene, some of our group wasn't available so we found it hard to film but we took the task on and gave it our all, the task was more challenging and needed to be completed but might have been produced at a lower standard as this project was also time consuming.

When creating our film there were many skills that I got taught from the people in my group. I myself didn't have a lot of past experience with filming and media so I learnt a lot of new techniques that I wouldn't have known before and this will help me for future references. If there was anything that I wasn't sure about then I would simply ask a member in my group as I like sharing idea’s with other people to try and make the task more efficient and less time consuming. This happened on a number amount of times and we revised the task and spoke about it wisely.  We all helped prevent make tasks longer then they should have been and we all stuck together on the hardest parts of the filming.

Throughout the project we all gave it our best effort and all participated highly when needed to. Throughout the production of our film some massive decisions were made that would affect are film as a whole, the decisions were mostly needed when a shot size was wrong or the framing of the clip wasn't suitable for what we were trying to achieve, we had to alter shots and agree with each other to perform certain type of shots. A great example to use would be the office scene where Alan is helping Sophie do her Maths homework, we had to adjust the objects in the background of the shot several times to make the scene suitable and to avoid continuity problems.