Props and Lighting

Once we redone our storyboard and starting filming, we realised it would be better to shoot the victim instead of beating him. So we had to go and buy a toy gun. The grey area looks unrealistic; however it was covered by the hand so this didn’t matter. But the front of gun had an orange tip and so I coloured it in with a black marker pen. In the shot you can see the orange but it isn’t very faint so this wasn’t a big problem. However, it took up valuable filming time to go and find a toy gun at short notice.

We had a shortage of lighting because when booking equipment we all took one piece home each. However, one member of the group had forgoten to take the lights and its stand home and so we had an issue. The garage had a faint light which we used to just light up the room. This wasn’t enough so we hung a light above the victim’s head which you can see in some shots. However we shot on two days and on some of the shots we forgot to have the light on as we had to turn it off as it got too hot. This still wasn’t enough light so in the back of the garage on the other side we plugged this big light in. It was much brighter and so gave us what we were missing.

Another prop we used was the envelope which was exchanged. We just found a big bubble wrapped envelope in my house and folded it in half to make it look like there was something inside.

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