Participle clauses usually show things like event order, time, cause and effect. I wonder if the following past participle clause can mean different things.
Filmed inside, the footage was too dark to use.
Most commonly it means "because it was filmed inside." But can it also mean "after it was filmed inside?"
Or does the sentence have to be phrased in this way for it to imply event order?
Filmed inside, the footage became too dark to use.
A misplaced participle clause:
Definition: A participial phrase is misplaced if it seems to modify a word other than the one the writer intended to modify. It is often added to a sentence as an afterthought. The idea was clear in the author's mind, but it didn't translate to the reader. Misplaced: We got on the bus, soaked from the rain. (Was the bus soaked?) Better: Soaked from the rain, we got on the bus.
The rule concerns what the clause modifies and not what the main verb of the sentence is.
Filmed inside, the footage was too dark to use.
Filmed inside, the footage became too dark to use.
Both sentences are correct because "filmed inside" refers to the footage. If it became dark, the film is celluloid, not digital.
