During the production of our trailer, we came across certain problems whilst filming.
These problems included:
- The camera had trouble picking up features in dark areas, because the camera we were using didn't have night vision we found it very hard to create the effect we wanted. Here is an example of when we wanted the room to be very dark to give the effect that she was asleep in bed at night and something was watching her from over the wardrobe. This would be one of our first scenes in the trailer so we need it to be good.
- We also had a major problem with lighting, because the camera we were using didn't produce very good quality film in the dark, we had to use alot of lighting so the camera would see the characters. However we had to put lighting very close to the characters we wanted to highlight or have very strong lighting, unfortunately this doesn't look very realistic when the character is supposed to be asleep and theres a strong light hitting her.
- The tri-pod we were provided with was brand new, because of this the movement was very stiff which made our filming very jerky. This was very annoying and meant we had to re-record parts of our filming.
Here is where we had a problem with this:
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- Re-recording. This took up ALOT of our time, main reasons why we had to do this was because we either had problems with using the camera, the camera wasn't picking up the characters, there wasn't enough lighting or there was very bad acting!
- Poor acting, because we aren't actresses and none of us do drama I wouldn't say we were the best actresses. We would always end up laughing because we couldn't take ourselves seriously or were just really embarrassed; however once we were focused on the task we acted a lot better.
