Managing time tables: Even though we only had two main actors there were major timetabling issues and that meant that we could only film with both actors one or two days a week for a couple of hours. This meant that we could only do the main bulk of filming in short bursts. To get around this we had to sort of the scenes into shots with one or both of the characters. Any shots with only one character in could be done on a separate day when that actor was available. This was hard to do as it was both time consuming but also making sure that the actors were looking in the right place and the positioning of their eyes would make it look like they are maintaing eye contact.
Lighting: The drama studio we were using was also used for classes during the day and other clubs after school hours. This meant that all the lights in the drama studio were changed meaning that we had to find the lights plug them in and sort out light intensity and took a long time from 10 mins to 40 mins and this time was taken out of filming time.
A second way that lighting affected the production was later in the filming. When we were filming our last few pages of script a problem occurred. All the lights in the drama room we were filming in were taken down for the school play, Romeo and Juliette. By speaking to one of the schools lighting technicians I was able to get another light in the drama room. This meant that the lighting changes at the end of my short film due to this problem but the same chiaroscuro effect could be created and filming resumed the next week.
Booking room: Other than clubs there were some external bookings and exams in the room. I had spoken to the head of drama and the person in charge of external booking to let me now via email if there were any bookings. However, I was often given less than 24 hours notice of booking which meant that I had to tell my actors who have cleared their schedules that we can't film which was both frustrating and meant that were weren't keeping to filming schedules.
Camera focusing: During our filming we used extreme key lighting. My camera struggled to focus on loose frames and this lead to many of our shots to being blurry and out of focused. This meant that many of the shots had to be changed changed to a tighter frame to avoid this. This also meant that we had to set the camera to record for a few seconds to minutes before acting out the scene so the camera had time to adjust to the light levels. This meant that each time we filmed the SD i used (8GB Sandisk) was empty so there was space for all the extra film. To still include loose frames in our short film I decided that I could edit the shots to make it a loose frame. As the background was completely black i was able to -----zoom---- out on each scene and add a black background behind it to create space around the character. ////add footage/screenshots to describe//////
Script: Our actress had difficulties saying some words such as baby bear and lines such as "they still put out their bowls of porridge" forcing changes in the script so the actress could say the lines that the audience could clearly hear. This caused time setbacks as we would have to film several scenes many times and then implement changes until the scene worked. ////add footage/screenshots to describe//////
Length of film: The length of the film ended up being over 6 minutes. This was too long to fit into the specification so we had to cut scenes out. However, the film is mainly based on one conversation between two characters which made cutting scenes out difficult if we wanted the interrogation to still make sense. In the end one monologue was taken out completely to cut down on the film length.
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