{"id":6,"date":"2026-02-25T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediastudies.pinehurst.school.nz\/malachy-gillham2026\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-09-21T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:00:23","slug":"6-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediastudies.pinehurst.school.nz\/malachy-gillham2026\/6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Production Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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initially we knew we wanted to do a thriller\/murder mystery, above are the early brainstorms and plot drafts which we did together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

leading up to filming, i was in charge of the camera battery and all 5 costumes for our actors. this included shoes, ties, jewellery, the lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

our first filming session went about as poorly as it possibly could. we did have a storyboard, but no script or clear direction. this ended up with us essentially wasting a bunch of time, especially since we never ended up using ANY of that footage (it was un-useable). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

heres the first storyboard:
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moving forward, we redid our storyboard and i was in charge of creating a script. we didnt want a repeat of what happened last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

heres the updated storyboard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a lot of the character design and mise en scene was also changed. this time my groupmate also made some character moodboards to try and convey the characters\u2019 personality better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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please forgive the fact that half of these dont have names, it was before we had fully decided on what we were going to call our cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going into our first proper<\/em> <\/strong>filming session, all went surprisingly well. we got a whole heap done and I was rather happy with the result. although, as usual, the camera didnt work. it wasnt a battery thing, rather the actual gear itself broke – which sounds about right haha. this resulted in us using about 4 different phones to record over the night (since it was late, everyones phones were near dead, so we had to switch and swap)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the real issues start to arise is the dreadful organisation of the second filming. now you\u2019ll have to forgive me again, since that was a misleading statement, we actually tried our very best to gather up all 4 actors (not including me and my groupmate) but exam season was upon us, and people have jobs and responsibilities. this ended up with the whole group trying to find a date, finding one far off in the future, agreeing upon it, and cancelling at the last minute. unsurprisingly, this process was infuriating, but i never lost my cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the end, we couldnt get one of our main actors to show up again, so we had to improvise by switching up some of the roles in a way that still made sense with the plot. although the one thing we couldnt get was a huge gap in the middle of the movie which we absolutely HAD to have the aforementioned actor in. this resulted in a crucial section of filming that was really impactful to the plot being missed. this lead us to try and find a last minute solution by having two of our actors voice over a panning shot of the house to try and fill the gap in footage. i really wasnt happy with this at all but its better than nothing i suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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