Week 4 'Persona' R.M

This week we were tasked with reshooting a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film “persona”. This was a difficult task as the scene uses complex lighting, and camera work. Also it is hard to recapture the raw emotion and passion that the actors in the original piece bring to the film. This week I was in charge of sound, I found this to be a more relaxed job than the others I had taken and I feel that It was to a high enough standard and fortunately there was no missing or tainted audio. I feel that the film that we produced was not to the same standard as Ingmar Bergman’s original or close to it, in pre production we failed to plan ahead, having to phone around different companies to get access to one of the seminar rooms in p5, also the group differed on my opinion that we should have used period costumes from the props and costume department. With the majority of the group disagreeing, saying it will be fine without, this issue was raised in the showing of our film with one actor having a logo visible on her t-shirt which was highlighted to have lowered the overall tone and feel of the film. I think we could have made this film so much better if we had planned further ahead and experimented with the lighting more on set.