Studio Task – Applied Production Skills

For the studio task I was assigned the role of production design, this meant finding locations and sorting costume. Costume was relatively simple as we just had to look professional with the main character looking a little more rough and unorganized. Our producer made no effort to find any actors for the production so that was left to me and the director and when we did find some they dropped out at the last minute. So in the end I also ended up starring in the film along with more people from the group. I also arranged the location for the filming which was at The Grand York. Despite having connections there, I still had to speak to the events team who kindly allowed us to use the room for the day. I also wrote the script for the film despite the writer who provided a very short, handwritten script that would not have lasted 2 minutes. I wrote the script in my own time, adding scenes and bulking out the very few provided by the writer. Also whilst on set (location and studio) it seemed as though the director struggled to control the group when it was time to film, resulting in me having to countdown to film and take charge in some cases. We also had a sound issue in the studio when the group in prior told us they had left it as it was when they had gone in but the sound had been fiddled with so for our first 45 minutes we had no sound recorded. We got the issue sorted and rushed through our last 10 minutes in the studio trying to get the footage we needed.

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