Today was the principle day of production. Shun came over to my place, and we basically shot the bulk of all the film. Shun went first, then me.
With Shun's film, the problem was that of angles and space. My room, my house, the corridor chosen for the case - they just weren't well lit enough, or spacious enoguh, to provide the flexibility needed for a good production set. And the setting just didn't look real. It looked more like the residence of a man being forclosed upon then an environment wherein intellectual property theft - or any theft, for that matter - would occur.
I want to shift focus to my film. My film ran more efficiently I think because it was an easier concept to grasp. It wasn't one continuous story, but was made of several elements. And hence, it was easier to break up and I didn't lose sight of the film. I filmed the various incidents of violation of intellectual property with plenty of different angles and with several takes to ensure that things would work out. Problems were met when I had to do the pirated DVDs purchasing scene.
The problem there was that we had no control over lighting as it was outdoors and both Shun and I were in the shot, leaving my sister to have to be cinematographer, and she not having been trained in such a profession, did not and could not deliver the best shots. However, we got some good insert shots and we got a good general shot.
Other problems, such as the jail scene, were solved - thank goodness - by the back staircase, the bottom of which had some rails that looked like jail bars. By crouching rather uncomfortably, and by ensuring the camera captured neither the stair handles nor the stairs, an illusion was well crafted.
The camera work was swift though, the problems were not unsurmmountable. Hence, things generally worked out.
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