Production Technology - Final Film Production

To ensure a Successful Production of our version of the Good Samaritan, we decided to create a basic chart to confirm that everyone within the group understood the dates, times and the equipment that was needed for filming.

Monday 24th November - Filming Day 1
This was the very first day of shooting our production of The Good Samaritan.
Previously we had gone on location to film, to ensure that everything would run smoothly for the actual shoot. On our previous visit we found that we had chosen the wrong time to film, as it ended up being far too dark for the Panasonic HMC151 to handle. This inevitably made us come to the decision that we would film at a much earlier time, and transform the color and light through the editing process on AVID Media Composer.

As with any form of production, it came with it's complications, and sadly we had come across an issue on the very first day of filming. Our mode of transport was to be the use of James Scanlon (Group Member) car, but unfortunately an incident arose which meant it was no longer in use. We were fortunate of having a friend of James help us out with transport, therefore we were able to make it to the planned location.

The original setback had unfortunately created consequences, as we had turned up on location rather late, which led it to be far to dark to film. This as a whole had definitely brought the group moral down, as it was the very first day of filming, but it was indeed something that we had learnt from, and made us prepared for the next day of filming which was to follow.

Wednesday 26th November - Filming Day 2
Having learnt from the previous mishaps on the first day of filming, we began again.
We arrived at the location on time, with the appropriate equipment and started setting up as quickly as possible. The weather yet cold, had stayed dry which had definitely gone in our favor when it came to filming, as the location was an outdoor location.

As myself and Giorgia Perini decided that we would take the role of cinematographer together, we combined our efforts in terms of taking responsibility of the camera angles, as well as it's framing to create a successful short film. During this process we would discuss with each other, making decisions on what we thought would be best for the production. We believed this would be the best way to get the best possible outcome.

As a group we were committed to keeping in line with the plan that we had previously set up during the pre production process, therefore keeping quite true to the storyboard that Giorgia had previously drawn up was very important to us.

As a Cinematographer we had taken many inspirations from various films, and were aiming to create a very dark cinematic feel to film, very similar to film noir. We took inspirations from various films and television programmes such as Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, to Netflix's House Of Cards by the cinematographer Igor Marinovic.

The things we aspired from these were the lighting, colour, and framing. We wanted to implement similar framing seen in certain scene's from the House Of Cards. The shots seen in HOC were usually very wide angled, and also very symmetrical.

 We also took inspiration from the use of colour within the shots, as they provided a very cold feel to the programme, which was something we were looking to create.

Opening Scene 30 Second Clip from Sion Campbell on Vimeo.