Creative Risks

One of the creative risks which me and Sophie took with our film opening was filming in the dark. This had many 'costs' associated with it for example we hadn't really used the cameras before. To fix this problem we invited Kirk to join us from the L3 Diploma in year 13 as he has been using these cameras for over a year and has a lot of experience. Another cost would be that the camera wouldn't pick up people very well. We also thought at first we would have to film in the daytime and use final cut or some other editing program in order to give the effect it was nighttime.

Despite all of this, we still decided that filming in the dark was the best option. For one reason it's the way the film needed the darkness for atmosphere, and for another the fire troupe people need to be as invisible as possible so the faeries look like they are flying on their own. Fire troupe also do not practice in the daylight and so we wouldn't have been able to use that special effect in the same way.