Production: Behind-the-Scenes

 In this blog it contains behind the scenes during our shooting, this blog was created by Kimora

Production: Behind the Scenes Roles:

• Mother: Eileen

• Daughter (Cassie): Cassie

• Director / Editor / Videographer: Tisha

• Videographer: Kim
  
  

Behind-the-Scenes:

Scene 1: Bedroom Scene 

During the filming of the bedroom scene, we experimented with different angles that would be able to show Cassie and the props on the table. We tried to do the takes from different angles such as from the side or from the laptop’s webcam. During this scene we struggled to keep the continuity, as the make-up props were in different places after every take, Cassie’s hand placement was also different, and one time she used the wrong make-up prop from the previous take. There were many mistakes that we didn’t notice while recording, leading to us having to re-shoot all the clips for the bedroom scene. This made us learn that we have to be very careful when filming to make sure there were no mistakes and there will still be continuity in the final opening. To make sure no mistakes happened, we had to recheck the previous take to ensure that all the props and the character’s position were the same.  

Since we didn't have a clapper, we made one out of a piece of paper and labelled the take number and the scene. 

Scene 2: Party Scene

During the party scene, we needed alcoholic drinks for the party. We used tea to replicate it, since the color was similar and it was cheap, so we can easily buy more if we need more or have to re-shoot some scenes. 

We still needed alcohol bottles as a prop for the background to create realism, so we decided to use Tisha’s

parent’s alcohol bottles as a prop for our project. This tells the audience that the party drinks were alcoholic 

Scene 3: Kidnaping Scene

During the kidnaping scene, we decided to film in a supermarket parking area, we chose this location because

it was a large open space where we could easily try different areas to shoot out scene, it was also convenient as we

could buy props for our party scene, such as the drinks. 

This clip we had to shoot a clip of Cassie’s phone ringing from a call from Mom. We used Eileens’ phone to call

Cassie’s phone and renamed her contact name to Mom♥️. Here we had to make sure the phone started ringing at

the right time when the camera approached the phone, sometimes the call came too early or sometimes the call was

too late. Another problem we experienced was that the camera didn’t focus on the phone screen which did not show

the contact name, leading us having to keep re-shooting until the final take. 

Here we had to film the dragging scene, at first Tisha our director had to demonstrate on how to properly

drag Cassie. We used Cassie’s personal driver to help act as the kidnaper. We had to try different angles where

Cassie can still be shown while also not exposing the kidnaper’s face. There were also times where Cassie’s driver

couldn't drag out Cassie properly, or the car door didn’t open wide enough to show Cassie that clearly. 

Self Reflection: This behind the scenes blog shows the journey of our recording, it was really fun and stressful at the same time trying to manage the different people during the party scene which involves around 8 people for the shoot. During this as well there were many times taken away because of people feeling too hot during the shoot so we had to take breaks. There were several problems we encounter but at the end we manage to record our scenes and I would say this shoot was a success even with the presence of problems.