P2(d) Following Production Processes

Meaning & Purpose : I will show the full diary detail for the whole filming process. Furthermore, I will demonstrate how I use different combination of camera to achieve range of style which match the advertisement.

Film Diary

01/28/2017
On that day, I had decided to film on the Saturday morning. However, when everything began and ready to film. One of my actor (Barin) suddenly said he didn't want to participate in the whole film. Luckily I had my contingency actor plan, I had quick found my second actor (Jeremy) to replace him.

At first, I was mainly filming Jeremy scene. It included the opening scene and inside the boarding room. As my room is quite spacious and bright, there isn't any difficulty to set up the camera. Camera angle & key light is very easy to adjust. Jeremy is very co-operate with me as well. Most of the scene can be done in one goal. It helps me saving lots of time. Taking footage in my boarding room had already spent most of the day time. When the filming process began, the actual outcome were quite similar to my idea from my drawing board. Although the audio is quite plain, however the tension of the footage can be build up by adding music background / sound effect when editing.

By the time I finished filming Jeremy's scene. It was already evening and I could do little amount of filming with Jim due to the battery life. As most of the, Jim's scene is quite short and easy to film. Putting Jim to the last and film is easier for me to adjust more time to focus on Jeremy.

01/29/2017
On that day, I had mainly focus on montage video of both Jeremy and Jim. As montage video had a different timing, I had required my actor to bring different clothing to change for the time change. Both actor arrived on time, filming process was up to schedule. Also Sunday is usually very quite around the boarding house, it makes everything more easier for us when filming inside the common room. Both actors are very co-operative, it makes most scenes can be film in one goal.

04/02/2017
On that day, I was mainly focusing on the ending scene. The ending scene had took me quite a lot of time to film. As I had to experimented different camera setting which I think fit best to the scene. Furthermore, I have to filmed lots of different angle for that scene. I had only got 1 camera which most of the ending scene had to be repeated 2 - 3 times for different camera angle. Although it is very time consuming for me to film the ending scene, the outcome was excellent and met my expectation.

In this scene, I want it to be filmed in low key light and high camera angle. I had combined with low ISO and small aperture. This combination form a great graphic content, it minimises the noise on the image and also form a dim and dark scene.

I have chosen to use high camera angle is because it often represent lose advantage, fear, etc. As this scene is about revenge and the actor had lock himself inside the wardrobe, there isn't any way of getting out of the wardrobe. He starts shouting and feels panic, it works well combined with high camera angle.

In the storyline of the movie, the cricket ball leads the actor discover a teleport hole in his wardrobe. Therefore I had a few shots only for the cricket ball throwing around the boarding room. The reason I had chose cricket ball as it is bright red in colour, it makes a strong comparison with the white ceiling.

I had used a high key light to film for this scene. It makes the cricket ball brighter and attract more attention to audience. Audience will stay focus more on the cricket ball, and will guide them the importance of the cricket ball exist.

As the cricket ball is on top of the camera, it cricket ball can easily damage the camera when throwing the ball carelessly. Therefore I had specially to ask someone to stand next to the camera to catch to ball if it gets too close to the camera while I am focusing on filming.