Production Skills Question 3

Question 3 How did your production skills develop throughout the process?   

This is my first time using many different production skills to make a short film. With being new at this, I fell I have improved a lot along the way. When we first decided on our film, we had to think of the different actors that could play their part and the set location. My group distributed characters and we got our roles based on our personalities. When deciding on our black hood figure we had to cast a role to a friend and make sure props were handy. A black jacket, with hood, made the character unknown. Also, with filming at different locations, sometimes on different days we had to make sure our outfits matched to make it look like one day. One part that was difficult with all the actors was organizing a schedule, and finding a time that we were all free to film and act. Once this was all done we were ready to film.

When filming we had different shots with not all actors in the frame. This was used to give all of us time working the camera. By learning different angles and shots we incorporated them into filming. I also learned different lighting effects to make sure the characters could be seen and the film wasn't dark. Overall, my production skills increased, and I will now be more aware of all the work behind the screen that goes in to making a movie.