Developing Production Skills in "Words Unspoken"

Apart from being an emotional narrative, "Words Unspoken" gave our crew a great opportunity to improve our production skills. From pre-production to post-production, every stage of the production provided important knowledge and experiences that helped our growth as filmmakers.

We improved our storyboarding, casting, and scriptwriting skills during pre-production. Careful preparation and teamwork were needed to create an easy script representing Riley's emotional journey. Storyboarding helped us make sure that our ideas fit the shooting by allowing us to picture every scene. For us to produce the actors' chemistry and give our characters life, it was necessary to test the actors.

We decided to film some additional scenes to analyze which one created the mood we wanted.

Our technology skills were tested when we started production. As the cinematographer, I was able to properly capture the atmosphere of every scene by experimenting with camera angles to create the right mood. While leading the actors through their scenes, our director made sure that their emotions were genuine and powerful. To help the narrative, our editor/sound designer is carefully building the sound setting for the film using symbolic sounds.

We learned how to find a balance between each scene's emotional impact and the level of precision needed to produce a clean end result. Our problem-solving skills were also improved by the experience of solving challenges like background noise and matching sound with scenes.