Well last Thursday we were given our last assignment of the Semester and I was looking forward to it quite a lot. I went in on the Tuesday where we received our first exercise that was leading up towards the main project. I admit I loved the exercise that we had to do. Using clips and audio which were already given to us to create an exact 30 second clip was quite exciting for me as I kind of knew how to do it.
On the Thursday we all received the main brief and got straight to it. We all stayed in the groups that we had for the Fast Backwards exercise. Our genre is “Coming of Age Drama” which is quite a challenging genre and also quite demanding. We were to produce, shoot and edit our genre video from the re-edit of the Wizard of Oz. I was quite looking forward to working with the group as I hadn’t worked with any of them except Sonny. The group consisted of myself, Sonny, Grant, Robin and Jack.
During the first few days we decided to come into the studio and begin the brainstorming, planning and development stages of the project, coming up with the storyboard and script were quite difficult to get done as a lot of time was needed to come up with an ideal storyboard and script that matched with our genre. As we only had 48 hours to film our movie, we needed to get straight onto the script and storyboard and make sure we were all happy with it before we went off and brought costumes and began getting ready to shoot the movie.
We then spent the next two days shooting and editing our film to make sure we met the 4pm deadline. I liked the day we spent at Grants House shooting all our scenes. It was an exciting day as I had never gone out and shot a movie and created a script and storyboard for. I liked how Sonny and Grant were like the directors telling us exactly what were needed from us to make the scene more effective. We all worked well on the film.
As we were editing our film we came across an issue, which was our footage. The image quality was extremely bad for what we wanted. We also found that the storyline was lost as we watched the movie. Hopefully we will be able to make changes and maybe fix up what we have done during study week to make sure our movie is more effective in trying to communicate our ideas.