Production Report

Before filming we had a lot of preparation to do. We had to gather all our props that were included in our mise-en-scene. We began by looking at our props list and ticking off each item as we got it. This took some time as we had to borrow things from various places. Unfortunately we could not find a sofa so we had to improvise. Instead we used a row of chairs and covered it with pillows to make it look like a real sofa. It was important that we had the right props because we wanted it to look as realistic as possible.

After collecting our props we then had to make ourselves a flat. This had to look realistic with the amount of props we had. We had to make it look homely and like someone lived there. It also had to look like a murder scene, this was hard because we had to film before and after the murder happened.

We began by filming the scene where the Detective enters the corridor. This was hard to do because the corridor was very small and narrow so it was difficult to fit everything in the one shot. We had to do several takes of this shot until we could finally find a position for the camera where the corridor could all fit into one frame.
We then moved on to film our main scenes where the murder took place. Filming became a lot quicker because the shots were all very similar with the Detective inspecting the room whilst taking pictures. However because of this we found that the camera was in a similar position meaning that we didn’t have a variety of shots or shot sizes, something that we had to come back to at a later date.

Whilst we was filming we noticed we was paying far to much attention to what was happening in the scene rather than the camera work. We also didn't realise whilst filming that our light source was terrible. We didn't use a main key light and only had the outside light and a small lamp in the corner.