Reflection for Production Task

Pre-Production/Production reflection/evaluation:

1. Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the planning. These may include; organizational problems, group related issues, etc.
Our group has found it difficult to get together and be able to film. On many occasions, some group members weren't able to meet at certain times or have forgotten their props and costumes, so we have not been able to film or film as much as we would of liked to. Our group had to become a lot more organised and willing to donate their time in order to get our filming complete.
2. Clarify any time-management issues your group encountered during the planning process and describe the steps you implemented to improve in this area;
The time-management issues our group experienced were not all being able to meet at the same time in order to film. By donating our time and using time during and after school, we were able to successfully get our filming complete.
3. Discuss whether your group made effective use of the provided templates to assist the film-making process;
Our group made effective use of the provided templates to assist the film-making process, as we all completed a template each and then put our ideas together. This also helped with timing and made it easier for us to get our work done faster.
4. Explain whether the planning process helped your group during filming. In particular, discuss whether the use of devices such as storyboards, shot-lists, and rough edits assisted throughout the filming process;
During our first stages of filming, the planning process didn't come to much help for us, as we improvised a lot and filmed each scene using a lot of different shots to give us some back-up film and inspiration. However, later, the planning process came to a lot of help for our filming, as we just followed what we had planned and were able to get the filming done a lot faster.
5. Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the filming process. These may include; organization problems, unreliable cast members, group related issues, equipment problems, etc. 
The main problem for our group was organising time to film and all being able to meet at the same time. We also experienced problems with costumes and props, as some group member forgot them at times and we had to improvise. Although, I think our group has worked very well together overall and I have enjoyed working with them. 

Our Film!

In our film, we are using miss-en-scene, cinematography and sound and editing. Mise-en-scene includes, lighting, props, costumes and style of acting. We have incorporated all of these elements into our filming and made sure they all work with the camera. We used costumes and props to help show our characters and what they were doing. We used lighting to help get a good effect on the camera footage and help show distinct features on us. We all used the same style of acting to show that we are all princesses and all want revenge on the prince. Cinematography includes the camera movement and camera angles. Using a tripod and video camera we were able to achieve different effects. Throughout our film, we have used different camera angles to show different shots and a lot of camera movement, as the characters keep moving during the whole movie. We have used editing, as we needed to edit our all of our scenes together to help make them flow and tell a story. After editing our film together, we put lots of sounds and music in the background to help give emotion and feeling to the story. Therefore, we have used miss-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing throughout our film and this has helped give it a storyline and show many details of the movie.

So far this term..

My group has worked very well together and we have progressed as a team. As two members of our group, including me, have been sick for a week, we get an extension on our work for an extra week. That allows us time to film tomorrow afternoon and do the wedding scene of our film. We are also going to film this Sunday afternoon and get the rest of our movie finished. We have each contributed to parts of the film and making the props list, shots list, etc. We have all contributed our own ideas to costumes and lighting and have worked out the outcomes as a group. I think our group has worked very well together and helped each other make the film. We have already filmed the beginning of our movie and have film just in case there are parts that we don't get completed. I have enjoyed filming so far and working as a group.

Time Code!

The first bar measures the amount of hours, the second bar measures the amount of minutes, the third bar measures the amount of seconds and the fourth bar measures the amount of frame. Directors use time code to be able to film, record and produce major screenings

3 point lighting set up!

There are three lights used to achieve this setup: 
- Key Light 
- Fill Light
- Rim Light (also called the back light) 


All of these lights are adjusted to achieve the classic Hollywood lighting scheme called three-point lighting. 

The Key Light creates the subject's main illumination and defines the most visible lighting and shadows. Your key light represents the dominant light source, although, the key light does not have to be positioned exactly at this source.

The purpose of the Fill Light is to soften and extend the illumination provided by the Key Light, and makes more of the subject visible. Fill Light can simulate light from many secondary light sources and reflect them to bounce light into your scene.

The Rim Light (also called Back Light) creates a bright line around the edge of the object to help visually separate the object from the background.