Calling Card: Production post

 Production Process

We originally planned to go back to our friend's house to film more, but, it turns out that he was busy for the entire week. So we had to improvise. We had to make some last minute changes and that included going to my partner's house and bringing along another person to help us with filming.

 Once we arrived to our filming location, we firstly had to discuss the elements that we were going to use. We pulled out our storyboard, we had to bring the props we were going to use, and we also got our filming areas ready. This time, we were able to collect all the necessary props including the calling card, the relics, religious elements, ramen cups, newspaper, and the half-empty water bottles.

Protagonists

We originally planned to film the antagonist stuff first but we had to wait until it got darker so we could implement the low-key lighting we wanted. Continuing, We had to establish Oliver's and Matthew's relationship. We introduced Oliver and Matthew through a quick conversation about Matthew's girlfriend and then we focused on Matthew complaining about how difficult the case was. We then took a variety of shots that followed our storyboard and also we also focused on how to accurately achieve our intended message through our mystery film production. We additionally had our filming area be super dirty to really exemplify them as obsessed.

 We encountered a problem mid-way through filming though. Halfway through our production process it dawned on me that I used the wrong costume for Matthew. That really set us back for a little bit but we did come back stronger. Additionally, I feel like because of that reset, we were able to film better shots than before and become more dialed it when it came to filming the antagonist

Antagonist

As we transitioned from protagonists to antagonist, it started to become really dark. At first, we thought that this may be a problem because we are inexperienced with lighting so we worried that we would not be able to get our desired shots. But my partner's father came to us and presented a portable light with an adjustable brightness setting. This really helped us a LOT and because of the light we were able to effectively solve the lighting problem and continue filming according to the storyboard. So we turned off all of the lights, got our portable light, and began filming.

The antagonist part went surprisingly really well except for the fact that my partners dog sometimes barked and interrupted our filming. We also had a slight time constraint because it turns out that my partner had 2 more dogs that were aggressive. So his mom stepped up with a heroic move and took them to a park. Thanks to that, we got some amazing shots that I am genuinely proud of and many more. After this, we mostly wrapped up filming for that day because it was approaching a really late hour and we decided that we would finish the last shots on Monday of the following week.

Conclusion

As smoothly as that day may have went, we still need to complete a variety of more shots for the protagonists. We switched from the protagonists to the antagonist midway during filming because it was getting dark and we wanted to create a contrast between day and night to highlight how the detectives are the good people and the antagonist is the bad person. Additionally, the friend we invited to play Oliver happened to be somewhat bad at acting and articulating certain sentences so that took up a small chunk of our time. 

In conclusion, I think that we had a great day at filming and I hope we can wrap up the filming part soon and start editing the following week!