Problems and success of the production

Filming our production was a fun experience but it was not a very easy one because of the various problems we faced upon location, while filming and even before filming had even started.

Before we had started filming we had the problem of where and when everybody was going to meet up. Because we live quite some distance apart we had to arrange a certain date and time, so we could meet and all go to the location together so that was a tiny problem. Also before filming I had to sort out all of the costumes, the storyboard and the props so the large amount of preparation that was involved in this was also very much a problem.

On location, we had found that it had rained the night before and because we filming in a  wood, we found the ground was very uneven and soft and therefore not only would it be very difficult to walk on, but the camera tripod would often sink into the ground, giving us a very uneven shot.  What went well on the shoot was that we managed to get a wide range of shots and camera angles and at the same time we had fun so to enjoy yourself and to get a variety of angles is something good.

However while filming we had a few problems, for example the actors who were in the production had a few cases of forgetting their lines and while they did prove to be funny outtakes while they were improvising, it still hampered the making of our opening. Also the prop we using to kill the antagonist broke while we were filming and so we had to improvise using a less than intimidating and convincing tree branch and that didn’t help at all. Finally while filming we did have some success because we had managed to avoid the rain that was threatening our production and also we managed to capture some very good scenes which were not originally in the storyboard helping us out to no end.

Finally during editing we had a lot of problem with the amount of shots we had, because even though we got some very good shots, we did not get a lot of footage overall, and this seriously hindered what we could do and how well the opening flowed. Also due to my unfamiliarity with the editing software it took me five hours to full realize what to do and where I was going wrong and so that was a lot time wasted. However even though we had a distinct lack of footage and a large gap in the quality we needed, my group managed to edit the film and bring it together so it would be of a  higher quality and that is a major success of the project.