At the beginning, Matthew started the storyboard while I started by being a location scout to find locations for us to film in. I found a warehouse for us to use along with getting permission for us to film on site on a school. The warehouse sadly didn’t work out, so I used a classroom and blacked out the majority of the room to make it appear as if it were a warehouse. Matthew was in charge of costume and props; I wore a suit and brought in the briefcase that would be the key story point in the movie.
Once we started filming, I acted as co-director on the film. Matthew and I would do our own version of each shot and then decide what we liked and didn’t like in each, before finally doing a shot of both ideas combined. Some scenes involved me acting, and these scenes were primarily filmed by Matthew, and intern, scenes where Matthew acted I would film.
We had a few problems while filming, largely weather issues and at one point a broken tripod. So we had to adapt to work with what we had. E.g. For one shot, we could not get the camera in the right position because of the broken tripod, so I used my working initiative found a way around it, in the end we used a packet on M&Ms to lift the camera slightly.
For editing, I used Adobe premier pro on my Laptop. The Editing was largely done by me, but the text font, location and order of scenes were all Matthew’s ideas. I cut, slowed down, sped up and added special effects to scenes myself, but I would check everything over with Matthew before making anything final. The editing took over 4 hours in total.
Once everything was done, we published the film and uploaded it to YouTube and once it was there, it became viewable to the world.
