Production: Behind the Scenes

This blog post contains all the jobs and tasks given to our members behind the camera to assist us during the shooting. This blog is written by Kenzo.

Creative And Arts Crew:
Storyboard Writer: Kenzo
Set Design: Kenzo, Gusde
Make-up artist: Candra, Maha

Camera and VFX Department: (The tech people)
Lighting Technician: Gusde
Editor: Maha
Camera Operator: Kenzo (stunt cameraman), Gusde (drone operator)

Above the line: (The one in charge)
Director: Gusde
Assistant Director: Kenzo


Pictures of Behind the Scenes (taken by Kenzo):

This is the drone that we used to record aerial footage of our character riding a motorcycle and climbing the walls. This device made it extremely useful when it comes to recording far-distance third-person point of view.

This picture depicts Gusde and Maha discussing about how we're going to use a drone to shoot Candra climbing the wall.

This picture shows us reviewing the footage that we shot after the take.

This picture shows our actor "Mark Choi" getting ready on a motorbike to shoot our very first scene.

This is the picture of our actor playing as the criminal boss of the underworld.

This picture shows us shooting the final scene of the film opening where we used red food colouring to act as blood and we needed assistance from Gusde he will splash red food colouring onto Maha's face.

These videos shows how we recorded our film opening for the fighting scene.

Reflection: From the task given to our members, shooting the film makes it a lot easier as the people assigned to these roles are specialised in the assigned task. Without doing this, the final result of the film would not look great and conflict would probably happen between us when deciding. We also took a few pictures behind the scenes as a piece of evidence that we shot this on our own and how it looked like during the shooting.

Filming Schedule

This post contains the Filming schedule of our final film, we did this as a group:

Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Props	Equipment	Other
All Scenes	Monday 21/01/2025	Maha's House	Maha (Actor), Candra (Actor), Gusde (Cameraman), and Kenzo (Cameraman)	Dress in Bike Weapons (knife bat etc) Fake ID cards and outfits (all Black	Drone camera mics boom arm	During this day, Kenzo couldn't come to our set location because he was busy so we had to shoot the film with the 3 of us only.
All Scenes	Friday 31/01/2025	Maha's House	Maha (Actor), Candra (Actor), Greg (Actor),  Gusde (Cameraman), Kenzo (Cameraman)	Motorbike, jacket, black suit full set, red food colouring for blood, Knife, newspaper.	Drone camera, Phone camera, Clapper	After what happened on Monday last week, the opening scene we recorded was not what we expected. Due to that, on this day we decided to reshoot the whole thing with a new unofficial member added to our production crew named Greg (one of our friends). We are more prepared on this day as everyone in the group can arrive on the scene.
Some scenes we decided to reshoot	Friday 07/03/2025	Maha's House	Maha (Actor), Candra (Actor),  Gusde (Cameraman), Kenzo (Cameraman), Greg (Visitor), Marvel (Visitor), Arnold (Visitor)	Motorbike, jacket, black suit full set, red food colouring for blood,	Drone camera, Phone camera,	On this day we decided to reshoot some scenes, especially the fight scene as it was badly choreographed. We also removed one actor in our film which is Greg because the scene that he was in was unnecessary. We had a few visitors during our shooting who wanted to see the process of how we film and gives us feedback on what to improve.

Reflection:
The filming schedule allows us to list down the tasks that need to be done to help us prioritize our time and achieve the goal before the deadline. Without the schedule, it would be difficult for us to keep track of time and tasks that are unfinished making the group fall into shambles.

Classwork: Editing Practice

This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but me and my partner (Candra) edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 

Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

My editing process

Explain how you edited the clips together. Include screenshots of the editing software.  We used a lot of cuts and tools from canva.

Here is my first attempt, which had some misunderstandings with the editing app we were using as there was a lack of editing tools that Canva offers their users. We couldn't fix this issue as we do not have any other editing apps besides Canva installed in our devices.

Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because it made the whole scene understandable for the audience to watch. Without it, audience would have to watch raw footages that do not make any sense.

Reflection: This helped us to decide who had the best editing skills in our group so they could edit our final film. The biggest challenge was that our editing software Canva has limited editing options so the result was not on the maximum performance. All we had was multiple cuts and no zoom or effects elements in our practice. Next time we would have to get real editing software such as Capcut. The reason we had to use Canva was because me and my partner had no editing software and it would take a long time to download Capcut (or any other editing software) within the classwork timeframe.

Shooting Practice: Action Scene Recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. we did this as a group in school.

Lesson Description: My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre. Our chosen task was to recreate this scene from John Wick where he and the film's main antagonist conversed with each other engaging in a deal. 


Storyboard:

Original Scene:

     

Our recreated scene:
                                                

Problems, How to solve them and What to do next time:

1) We do not have the proper camera equipment, so sometimes the camera movements are a bit unstable, making it look unprofessional. We could not solve this problem besides the least we could do was to get someone from our group to have stable hands when holding the camera. Next time we would be required to buy new equipment that would stabilize the camera when moving to create a better quality film for the audience and avoid shaking the camera.

2) The backlight when we were filming ruins the recreated scene as the original scene was in a dark gloomy weather. There was nothing we could do as we could not control the weather and we did not have enough time to find a new place to film. Next time we would need to take our time to decide which location would be suitable for the environment to match with the original film.

3) There were background noises from the area where we filmed which caused a disturbance in the audio every time the character was speaking even though we had a phone microphone near the voice of our actor. We solved this problem by muffling the audio from the video however this makes the character's voice low and unclear. Next time we would need to buy a proper microphone attached to our actors so their voices can be heard loud and clear. We also would need to clear out the area of our filming set to avoid unnecessary audio or disturbance from entering our film.

4) We had a problem with our cameraman due to his unprofessional conduct where he accidentally recorded the scenes in slow motion. Luckily we had a solution where the videos would be sped up to cover the mistake of our cameraman from the audience. However, this solution would not fully solve the problem as some of the scenes are still in slow motion to match the pace of the original audio. Next time we would have to switch our cameraman to someone else as this can prove to be a hazardous conduct towards our final film.


REFLECTION: 
I think overall this was a fun and effective task to do because it gave us an overall experience of how we would film our future final project. The fact that we had the lack of props and equipment when we filmed this makes this a pretty decent low-budget attempt that my group were proud of. I think if we were to do this again and had more time doing this, it would turn out to be a really good scene as I'm confident with this groupmate.