Creative Critical Reflection #3

The production skills I had were very limited in the beginning of the filming. i had these grand ideas with my partner on how what he wanted to see from our film but had little to no idea how to get there. This is mostly things we would learn as we filmed but getting the filming scheduled proved to be very difficult given our busy lives. When we did find the time however, We learned a lot about how to put the test photos we took into actual video to shoot. Directing was more of a touch and go of looking and seeing what was working and wasn't for a particular shot. For example, A very directed shot was actually the cut with the ketchup we used in place of blood. My reaction might have been delayed so re shot to get a more realist time for pain response. That scene also had my partner acting as Svetlana. She couldn't quite get the vampire scowl we were looking for so I directed her on some pointers such as curling fingers into claws and bearing her teeth at least. It took a lot of attempts but eventually the acting got up to a reasonable threshold. Production design was beyond easy since the locations were already set up for us, he just added our props for the characters.