Production Logo

We discussed different production names and logos and came up with names such as:
-Waterfall Pictures
-Elite Studios
-Nova Productions
In the end we agreed on Vita Productions. Vita means 'life' in Latin and since our film opening is very similar to real life we made the assumption that anything else our company produced would have a high sense of verisimilitude.

Filming day - Photo collage

These are a few of the photos we took during filming to show the different techniques and angles we used to film. For most of our filming we used the tripod for stability. In one shot we put the camera on a skateboard to film a track shot of someone walking.

Filming Day - Plan adjustments

 

When we arrived at our location we saw a few more opportunities of things to film that were not previously planned out in our storyboard. An example of this is the hand crafted ship in the house. We thought the intricate design and attention to detail may be a good item to add to the list of 'clues' we have. We also filmed the sign of the street the house is on as we thought it would be a good idea to have it as an establishing shot.

As well as adding things we also took things away. For example, we had planned to film a shot involving a dining chair that had fallen over. Once we were at the location we realised that all the clues were in the front half of the room whilst the chair was in the back half. The chairs location wouldn’t correspond to the way the detective is facing. We filmed the chair anyway but after noticing this error we decided that it would be very unlikely that we would use it in our final product.

Another change we had to make was the actor we used as Mack Mason's sidekick. The actor we had previously planned wasn't available at the very last minute so we adapted to the situation and solved the problem by casting one of our team members. This did not affect the costume code we had planned and helped introduce racial diversity that we had not thought of before.

Filming Day - Costumes

Filming Day- Props