Creative Media Production- A1

By- Heer Joshi

CP1
 A1.4- Professional Skills

‘Explore and develop creative Professional skills and Behaviours’

Initially, our storyline focused on the father-son relationship. However, owing to unforeseen
circumstances, actors were unable to appear, so we had no choice but to cast our
cinematographer as the daughter and her mother as the mother (as the shooting site was
her home), and replacement actors were readily available at the time.
We learnt that if the actors weren't ready, the shoot should have been terminated on the
spot.
And, because we were changing the characters from father-son to mother-daughter, we
should've at least requested our teacher for permission before doing so.
Furthermore, we must adhere to our duties and obligations. As I transitioned from being a
cinematographer to an actor, the video shots we had planned were no longer feasible.
Because the cinematography was done by someone who didn't know what kind of result we
intended, the end result was poor.
Even the acting was sloppy because none of the new performers had any acting experience,
so we didn't obtain the results we intended.

On the day of the shoot, we didn’t realize our mic was not charged. So it wasted our time to
charge the mic. We were meant to have pizza in one scene, but instead, we ordered biryani,
which was not in our script. The props, too, were not ready. We needed to build a father-son
photo frame, and we shot the photographs of the father-son before the session day but were
unable to get them printed in such a short time, thus the props were not available on the day
of the shoot.
We even chose to move the shooting site from my house to a friend's house before the day
of the session. However, because changing the location would have cost us a lot of time, we
decided to keep my house as the only option.

We mishandled the equipment a little the day before the shoot, so we learnt to take proper
responsibility for the equipment because it was the school's, not ours.
We didn't take the actors' consent letters; if we had, they would have turned up on the shoot
day and the mishandling would not have occurred.
As a result, we learnt that we needed to choose competent, dependable performers who
would not betray us and who could act professionally.
We also didn't perform a mock trial before the shoot day to see if the actors were committed
to their roles.
Finally, there's the issue of time management. Because the actors didn't show up in the
morning, we spent a lot of time and couldn't finish the filming in one day.