We have finished our sweding project for the film Pulp Fiction. We decided to do the gold watch monologue scene, and we had many issues and obstacles to overcome. During pre-production, we had to make a script of the entire dialogue and camera movements. After we had made that, we had to plan our outfits. Now personally, I do not have Butch’s outfit So I was forced to wear something similar. I wore a gray sweater and matching pants to simulate what a kid would wear in the house.
Our actor for Captain Koons, Anthony had to wear a sort of suit so that he can match captain Koon’s outfit. We did not have access to a military hat or a hat that goes with a suit so we do not include it inside the Sweding project. Next mise-en-scene we needed was a watch, but we do did not have a watch so we ended up having to improvise and use a ring. Then I had to make a TV prop so that we could film what it would be like when Butch turned off the TV.
After our prop was finished, we decided to start recording. Our first major problem that came up was that our schedules did not fully align together, so we only had one lunch to film the scene. We each had to convince our teachers to let us skip class for one period, and then make up the work in our study hall. After we started recording, I find out that our actor has trouble memorizing the lines and he did not memorize the lines properly.
We ended up taking a lot of takes that day. But most of them were unsuccessful. We also had to use mics to isolate the sound so that the people in the library chatter did not overlap with our dialogue in the scene. A fire alarm also took place while we were recording so we had to evacuate the building, messing up our entire schedule.
So that entire period was unfruitful. We were forced to record tomorrow. Then our actor had gotten sick and did not show up to school so it threw us off pace. So we decided to film the next day. The next day, our actor showed up, but our main cameraman did not show up due to her leg having problems. As unprepared as we were, we decided to compromise and then film the scene without the mother being included. We had finally finished the project, but our last obstacle that we had come across was during editing, and the sound from the mic was picking up the chatter from the library so we had to isolate some of that sound through the editing software, and we were able to get rid of most of it, but some of the chatter is still heard throughout the final product. Lastly, we had to switch locations to film the scene since there were classes going on in the library.
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