Production
Planning for Production – Idea generation and brainstorming
This week we have been divided up into our coursework groups and have begun to explore possible themes, narratives and ideas for our film opening. So far, we are considering creating a film within the Thriller genre about digital piracy vs human exploitation during our brainstorming process it was really easy to communicate with my group members and generate ideas, one big advantage our group had was that each group members had really specific skill sets, for example I’m really good at the creative stuff such as drawing and thinking of the costumes. whilst the others had their skills that shows when we worked together during this project.
Mood Board
For our colour scheme we decided to go with a green/blue theme so it would contrast with the deep meaning of the overall message of our film opening, overall making it feel less oppressed but also giving it a surreal feel. Furthermore since our film opening is about digital piracy vs human exploitation there is a lot of ditigal elements like surveillance cameras.
Planning for Production – roles and responsibilities.
Today in class within our groups we discussed and delegated some key roles and responsibilities as we prepare to produce our film opening. It was decided that I would be in charge of making the mood board, drawing the story boards, and deciding on the costumes. This is because I am good at more creative stuff as well as experiences from making the storyboards before in previous projects. My first step towards these jobs is to confirm our general plot summary as well as making sure what camera angles should be used before I have drawn the full plan of the story boards. Furthermore I need to check with my team members what kind of character they want to present before I decide on the costumes for each character, For example is the main character clusmy looking or does he look like a sophisticated man. To be successful I will need to check in with my teammates before I have done my tasks to keep them on track and prevent disagreements.
Characters and their costumes
Main character – played by Zach
Antagonist – played by Zach
News interviewer – Alina
Story Boards
Here is my groups production preparation to date. The highlights of our project so far have been…… However, some aspects have been challenging such as…..
Dan McQuillan – Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Ken Eriksson – Dangers of artificial intelligence
fulldocument_unreleasedHEALTH_AI_humantesting2025.pdf and in the background the camera pans to a tv showing that one anti-piracy ad on a DVD they’re watching. Main character downloadsfulldocument_unreleasedHEALTH_AI_humantesting2025.pdf out of curiosity, showing the unreleased info about Health AI.
Story Board drawn by Alina
Production Process
As we get closer and closer to our filming week, we are focusing on completion of…….. We have now finished……and are close to completing…….. As an individual, my next steps are to… We have decided that our first filming session will be…….. Our biggest challenge so far as been communicating with each other because everyone in our group is more on the introverted side.
Fliming
In the film, I played the role of a news interviewer, which meant I got to wear a specific costume and deliver scripted lines to introduce the antagonist. During filming, however, I forgot to remove the gum I was chewing, which made my character appear unprofessional in a few shots. Fortunately, we were able to edit this out during post-production. I don’t believe we needed to reshoot anything, as our shots were well-planned from the start. We made sure to capture multiple takes of each scene from different angles to prevent issues like this from affecting the final product.
We filmed in several locations, including our school, Jackson’s house, the front of the Auckland Council building, and the Mitre 10 carpark in Albany. We began by filming the school scenes, which was convenient. All we needed was a dark space and a suit jacket over Zach’s school uniform. We chose the photography room and used a lunchtime to get those scenes done. For the scenes outside of school—particularly those at the beginning of the film. We coordinated times to meet up after school and film at the agreed locations.
Rough Cuts Review
In class this week we were given the opportunity to perform some market research on our class as an audience. We showed key scenes from the film as separate clips/in a rough edit and also explained our general plot/theme/characters to the audience. As a group we decided we wanted feedback on……. because…… and we created a Microsoft form to gather this information on.