Ad Campaign Project

Final Results

During the whole filming sessions last week I found myself stressing out about the whole thing, mainly because I was worried about how me and my partner as production designers were going to make this work. With the whiskey bottle we found out that we could fill it with tea to make it look like actual whiskey. I think the most difficult room to design would have to be the bedrooms because we had to fill up a lot of the walls but make it look exactly to the theme we wanted the rooms to be. 

The room where the party scene was pretty enjoyable mainly because we found it a lot easier to fill up the space of the walls like for a few of the walls we added picture frames or used a gift wrap that kinda looked like a patterned wallpaper. At first I thought we went to mainstream with everything but when the lighting was all set I could see it all work together. For a few of the party scenes some of us students had to fill in for certain sections, I was kinda annoyed with myself because I was wearing a slightly red t-shirt and lighting crew used a red gel for the lighting, so pretty much the colour scheme fail every time I was in the path of the red light.

I found the filming for the second room horrible with the way I had to set it not because the wall or anything but by how I had to tell one of the main actors how to place themselves for this scene, I understood why I was told to help because we wanted to make sure the actor was comfortable even if it meant I had to stay in the room with them through majority of the time. Unfortunately I think everyone got quite annoyed with the director and how he treated a few of the actors, I don't actually think he realised how he spoke and treated them was rude, especially with our main actress, he made her uncomfortable with one of our main scenes that I actually had to step in and tell him off. Other than that I think the rest of the filming went pretty well.

Ad Editing Experiment

For our final project each student had to create the scenes for the ad but as as experiment adding sound effects and music when necessary, for my experiment I decided to use the scenes for the beginning of the ad, I didn't use any music or sound effects until I got to scene with the dad watching TV. Then when the boy is in the kitchen sneaking around is when I lower the volume of the TV sound effects.