Production Obstacles 🧹

 Introduction:

    Hello again! Today I have decided to explain all of the issues I had while filming this past week. During my filming process I ran into a few things I wish I could've done/planned better but didn't have enough time too.

Problem #1:

    There was one particular prop that didn't work quite as I expected. The cones that I ordered came in the mail very small. I thought they were going to be a little bigger especially for the price of them when I ordered it. Since the cones came small, I had to film a lot of my scenes with low angles getting rid of a lot of diversity from shots that could have been included into my film opening. It was really hard to design the caution tape since initially I wanted to wrap the caution tape around the cones. After coming to the conclusion that the caution tape wouldn't fit right on the smaller cones, I had to work around and tape the caution tape. This is where the use of low angles actually helped my film because it made the cones and caution tape appear better and larger than it would have been if I used mid shots or long shots for some of the scenes. Overall this problem was pretty annoying at the start but It was an easy fix that I built around. 

(This is a picture I found of the cones with the caution tape and as it's pictured, the camera is placed lower to the ground to make it appear larger than it would've looked.)

Problem #2:

    

    The other problem I had was the lighting. At first I thought that Regional Park would have good lighting since in the parking lot there are big lights. I was wrong. The lights were all flickering so I had to make sure that wouldn't be included in my film. I ended up using the car lights from the dads car to be the main source of light. This was tricky because I didn't want the film to come out as too bright since my genre is still the thriller theme and it wouldn't make much sense, so I had my dad park the car a certain way where only some of the light would be flashing at our filming area. This wasn't really a problem since it was a very easy fix compared to the prop problem but it was a major setback and led us to being at Regional a lot later than we expected which cut back a lot of time to film.

Summary:

    Overall, I think it was good that these problems came up because even though they were annoying it was good that I reacted fast and knew how to fix these issues. I hope to have close to no issues when I finish filming my last few scenes hopefully this week.