One of the hardest scenes to film in Killer Queen was the opening of scene 3- the prom announcement. Looking at it from afar, it might seem like an easy set up, but be hide the scenes, it was a cinematographer's nightmare. To create a prom party atmosphere, we used the TV at my house playing a looping of party lights in the background. It was a smart solution to making the scene's appearance, but it came with so many more challenges than I had anticipated as the set designer.
The biggest issue came to the overall camera placement. While filming we could only frame the shot tightly to capture the screen, if we moved the camera ever so slightly, the wall behind the TV would become visible, ruining the shot. In some of the shots, the wall would come into shot, as the actors moved, which would cause us to have to edit the clip using the original clip. Making the post-production process extremely hard on the editors in my group(including me).
On top of that, the TV itself was causing many issues. It glitched, randomly shut off, and even its volume would go up randomly, ruining the audio of the clip and forcing us to re-do the shot.Lighting was also another unexpected issue, as the TV's brightness would sometimes overpower the actor's face, creating vast shadows or making the actors fade into the background.It took a lot of work and brains to make editing this scene work, but alas we pulled it off.
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