Evaluation - Firstly we came up with few storyboard ideas
ranging from drama's to comedy's then we all decided on a jokey comedy about a
person trying to work a vending machine that is not functioning properly and he
gets some help from his friends, it was very challenging to shoot this short
film as it involved a trip to the field across from our college as well as
filming inside our college. It had taken us around 3 days to record for the
short film and we did not shoot the film in the order of the shot list and as we
were filming we went quite a bit off what the shot list said. I think this was
because we were still coming up with ideas and concepts as we were filming and
decided to add/remove a lot of shots.
In our last short film,
I opted to work the camera and direct some of the shots but in this short film
I was put forth as an actor which I was fine with. It was my first time ever
trying to act and it was not as easy as I expected most of the battle was
trying not to laugh during shots but even though it took me a couple of times
to do some of the shots it was still a remotely enjoyable experience.
After we had finished
filming we soon began editing, one of my first jobs was trying to find some
suitable royalty free comedy music which took some time, then we looked into
adding a green screen effect which also took some time as we were trying to get
it perfect. I was surprised with looking back from our first time putting the
clips together and after we had finished editing and uploaded it as I found we
added a lot of effects to make the short film funnier, this showed me that a
lot of comedy in movies is actually added in during the post-production stage.
Some errors we had
were that we had to rush a few of shots due to running out of time, also we had
issues with the camera battery dying often and the weather was not always being
suitable to record in. Some issues with the film itself were I found out after
filming that I looked into the camera a few to many times, also we filmed over
a 3-day period so there were some clothing errors also with the weather in
first part of the film having a dark, gloomy presents to it than the rest looks
so super sunny, happy and positive also one thing we decided to add last minute
was the green screen effect which looked great but didn't fit the mood of the
film as well as I had hoped it would.
With this short film I was not as involved with the editing
but I put forward a couple of my ideas and was sure to help where I could. Our
main goal when making this short was for it to be as funny as we could make it which we
partly succeeded in, we also had a good range of camera shots and I think the
music goes fairly well with the short film.
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