The document summarizes the production of a short film about subliminal messaging. It discusses: 1) Filming being rescheduled due to equipment issues but then taking place over one day and going smoothly. 2) The editing process where clips were selected and arranged on a timeline with montages added to represent different techniques of subliminal messaging. 3) The decision to add a VHS effect and keep original sound for the montages to give an old television feel.

1. OBEDIENCE
Connor Albinson, Nicole Harman-Smith and Rufaro Maumbe

2. SYNOPSIS
 A theatrical short film looking into the idea that people can try to
control your mind, subconsciously, though the use of certain imagery
or sounds. The film will show the character watching a montage of
images that symbolizes each of the main themes associated with
subliminal imaging (sex, violence, fear, food and drugs) and show the
effects the images had on her.

4. FILMING DAY
 We were originally meant to meet on the Sunday to shoot for our film, but due to issues taking out
equipment on the Friday before, we had to reschedule. We decided to film on the following Tuesday
because unfortunately this meant that the equipment would have to be returned the next day so we had
to film everything at once, but I was confident that we could.
 We met at 1:00 to get out the equipment and we all met at the equipment hire, here we ran into a
few problems. We had all the forms ready including permission to film but we did not have an equipment
list so we could not get the equipment out straight away. Instead we had to wait until we could get an
equipment list which took quite some time and set us back a few hours. Afterwards we went to lidl to get
some props, we bought: a small chocolate cake, 3 jam doughnuts and whip cream for the food sections
of our film. It came to around £3.07 which me and Nicole split between us.

5. FILMING DAY
 We got back to my house, where we filmed, at around 3.30 pm and started to setup. We arranged the
room to make more space and placed plastic sheets on the floor and a small VHS TV in the corner of
the room. I liked the look with the plastic and TV on the floor as it gave the room an eerie, strange vibe
and would keep the floors clean. We also setup one of the red head lights and Nicole added a blue filter
and two diffusion sheets to give the room a bright but natural glow, which darkness around the edges. We
also setup the camera, tripod (to a mid height), the microphone and covered the window with a black
sheet so the only light we had was from the red head.
 It took us around 3 hours to print overall and in my opinion it went really well, considering we had
the pressure of filming all in one day I think everything went quite smoothly. We followed the shot list
that I had made and this really helped with the flow of filming. I think we worked well as a group and
everyone gave their opinions and ideas on the shots which really helped. I also thought Yasmin, as our
actress, worked really well, she got herself into the roll and was really enthusiastic about helping us with
our film.

6. EDITING
 We gathered the clips together that we got from the filming day
and went through a selection process where we collected the clips we
wanted and discarded the ones we didn’t.
 Then, we added them onto the timeline on premier pro and put
them into a little sequence and thought about where we wanted
specific clips to be.

7. EDITING
 We left room in the main sequence to insert montages representing
what she was watching based on the 5 main techniques of subliminal
messaging. We decided to use archive footage as it a representation of
what we actually watch everyday.
 Over the montages we decided to give it a VHS look to cohere with
the older television, We also decided to keep the sounds of the original
footage to give the effect of clicking through channels.
 Lastly we added the words in subliminally, in quick flashes.

8. SOUND
 While filming we focused on recording the sound along with recording
the footage so we would have good sound effects to work with
 We also added TV static though out to remind the viewer that she is
affected by what she has seen
 We made a conscious decision to not use a soundtrack over the ‘real’
footage as we felt it would have more of an impact if it was silent.

9. WHAT WENT BAD
 We planned to film our own footage for the montages but we
decided against it for reasons we mentioned before.
 We planned to use after effects to glitch names and some footage
but it failed after we tried it out. We didn’t think it looked that great
and the film looked better without it so we left it out.

10. WHAT WENT WELL
 Filming day went well because everybody was enthusiastic and we
worked well together with recording footage and sound.
 We got good footage and sound.
 We became best friends 