The Production Process

When initially considering a location in the school to create out preliminary task we decided on an aerial shot up a high angle showing Sophie ( the main character in the sequence) walking up the stairs. We decided that this would be effective as it would expose the location quickly and create a sense of space for the audience; we also decided to use a tracking shot to reinforce this point. We also decided to film on the stairs as to create a moving shot and mirror the realistic movement of the character. The choice of mise en scene for the production was altered slightly. We decided to turn the lights on in the room where we were filming to help create a more accurate setting that seems more natural for the situation. We chose to use minimal sound in this piece; we used dialogue to effectively show a conversation between the two protagonist characters that seemed more genuine. Finally we decided to use the editing through the use of the app ‘Splice’ as our peers suggested this would be a simple and quick way of cutting out clips together.  The audience for this piece would be teenagers our age; therefore we wanted to create a recognisable piece and location. The purpose was to reflect our editing, cinematography, sound and mise en scene skills. During the production of this video we decided that we would film each section of this piece multiple times, this ensured that the post production editing would be easier and the transitions would run smoothly. It was quick and easy to create the piece as it followed a simple story line and simple dialogue.  The problems that we did face concerned the actors; there were small issues with the idea of looking away from the camera and making it looks natural and believable.  The only other problem that had to be resolved was the way that the camera had to stay certain lengths away from each character, to resolve this situation we marked the floor to ensure that certain actors stayed in the correct position and sat at the correct angle that could be easily exposed to by the teacher.
The post-production was relatively easy, due to downloading the app Splice. This allowed us to edit, cut and make the shots into a full video. We added each shot into the app and it gave us transitions between. However, we took these out because it looks unrealistic and we were advised not to. I had to edit some of the clips we took so that they represented the match-on action.We filmed an aerial shot at the start of the film, but the cameraman filmed it using the wrong orientation (portrait instead of landscape). This meant we had to leave it out as when we realised, we didn't have the same clothes on and so it wouldn't look realistic. This meant we had to leave this shot out and use the others instead.