Production: Behind-the-Scenes

 This blog post contains the behind-the-scenes of our shooting process for our movie opening. this work was made by me (kim)

Production: Behind the Scenes

Roles:

• Mother: Eileen

• Daughter (Cassie): Cassie

• Director / Editor / Videographer: Tisha

• Videographer: Kim
  
  

Behind-the-Scenes:

Scene 1: Bedroom Scene 

During the filming of the bedroom scene, we experimented with different angles that would be able to show

Cassie and the props on the table. We tried to do the takes from different angles such as from the side or from

the laptop’s webcam. During this scene we struggled to keep the continuity, as the make-up props were in

different places after every take, Cassie’s hand placement was also different, and one time she used the wrong

make-up prop from the previous take. There were many mistakes that we didn’t notice while recording, leading

to us having to re-shoot all the clips for the bedroom scene. This made us learn that we have to be very careful

when filming to make sure there were no mistakes and there will still be continuity in the final opening. To make

sure no mistakes happened, we had to recheck the previous take to ensure that all the props and the character’s

position were the same. 

Since we didn't have a clapper, we made one out of a piece of paper and labelled the take number and the scene. 

Scene 2: Party Scene

During the party scene, we needed alcoholic drinks for the party. We used tea to replicate it, since the color was

similar and it was cheap, so we can easily buy more if we need more or have to re-shoot some scenes. 

We still needed alcohol bottles as a prop for the background to create realism, so we decided to use Tisha’s parent’s

alcohol bottles as a prop for our project. This tells the audience that the party drinks were alcoholic 

Scene 3: Kidnaping Scene

During the kidnaping scene, we decided to film in a supermarket parking area, we chose this location because it was a

large open space where we could easily try different areas to shoot out scene, it was also convenient as we could buy

props for our party scene, such as the drinks. 

This clip we had to shoot a clip of Cassie’s phone ringing from a call from Mom. We used Eileens’ phone

to call Cassie’s phone and renamed her contact name to Mom♥️. Here we had to make sure the phone started

ringing at the right time when the camera approached the phone, sometimes the call came too early or sometimes t

he call was too late. Another problem we experienced was that the camera didn’t focus on the phone screen which

did not show the contact name, leading us having to keep re-shooting until the final take. 

Here we had to film the dragging scene, at first Tisha our director had to demonstrate on how to properly drag

Cassie. We used Cassie’s personal driver to help act as the kidnaper. We had to try different angles where Cassie

can still be shown while also not exposing the kidnaper’s face. There were also times where Cassie’s driver could

drag out Cassie properly, or the car door didn’t open wide enough to show Cassie that clearly. 

Reflection: the behind the scene made us realize that we needed to pay attention well to filming, we had to make sure that the final clips can have continuity. Moreover the behind the scenes helped us keep track of what we did in our film opening project