Making Our Own Cupboard

Whilst filming the final scene for our film we wanted to include a shot of one of our actors taking a glass from the cupboard. We wanted the camera to be inside the cupboard so when he opened it you could see his face. After watching back our first three or four attempts we realised it wasn't going to work because there wasn't enough light by the cupboard and the shot didn't look very good. We tried having the lights in the room on instead but this would have caused continuity problems and if the whole scene was in the light we wouldn't be able to create shadowy effects which is needed for film noir. We therefore decided to construct a new cupboard closer to the light already being used.