Production (Trapped)

Today, I was being a production manager for the short film Trapped. I was trying to make sure that everything was running smoothly, doing a log sheet and also taking production stills as this would influence on our paperwork and show us doing our jobs.

To begin with we set of late because we didn’t have a log sheet and stills camera ready and also we didn’t have all our cast and crew when we were supposed to as they turned up about 40 minutes late. We set of without them and filmed scenes in the park on Church Street across the road from college to begin with as these shots didn’t include any cast or crew that were there. We were here about 15 minutes we were a little behind schedule than we were hoping.

When we arrived at Elias house to film in the basement we began to set up the Z7 cameras and tripod and we followed through the steps and camera positions and shots we wanted to do and shoot. This took a little while to make sure we got the best shots and lighting as we possibly could so that it could compliment the final cut. 

I think filming went quite successfully as we may have been a little behind schedule than what was planned but I think we had shot some good footage and if needed we have plenty of extra time to go back and shoot some scenes again. At times we did disagree on things and may have gone slightly of track.

Throughout this process I took production stills and logged all the tape information such as timings, shots, takes and description as this would be easier when editing as we can just import the important footage and not everything.

At one point the camera didn’t work properly and the contract and brightness was really dull this took us about 15 minutes to try and overcome this so that it looked similar to before as we didn’t want to make any continuity errors.

When we got back to college I uploaded the production stills on to my computer as well as imported the footage. I feel that the majority of the footage will look really good and fit to what we were planning on but if we think some shots don’t seem to benefit how we wanted them to come across we may need to shoot more footage.

Tomorrow I will be filming two other projects Pause and Kids and Pranks. I will be production manager again in both of these projects which I think I may have more knowledge in what I will be doing and hopefully I will benefit and o better at this role.