This is the post-production paper for the film project. Unfortunately I couldn't find the pre-production paper to post. This project involved the making and editing of a short movie. We needed to go through a series of steps before we could start. We needed to make a storyboard/ story line using pictures and short descriptions. We then needed to make a script. The script was to be followed very closely when making the movie. To make the film we had to film outside of school, which was hard to do because we all live on opposite sites of the city. This project made us communicate because we lived so far. To work in a team/group setting all the group members need to have good communication skills and all the people have to do the same amount of work for the project to go anywhere.
The locations we used were all at a house. To be specific we used a bedroom, bathroom, roof, and the side of the house to film our whole project. We used these four places in and near a house because that’s where our film took place. We needed a house that had a roof that we could stand on to have the person fake jump off of. We need a house that had a small fence for the person to jump off of so it looked like they were jumping off the roof.
Ethan played the role of the main character. Thompson and I filmed and edited the film. We nominated Ethan to be the main character because he is a real actor. Thompson and I filmed and edited the project because Thompson is very good with Imovie.
There were two major challenges that we faced while shooting our video. One was that we had trouble making the film long. To fix this problem we tried to make scenes in slow-mo. Our film did not meet the requirements of seven to ten minutes. The other problem that we faced as a group was when we were editing. When Ethan jumped off the and broke his leg he started swearing a lot so we spent a long time trying to find the right censored beep for this. After finding that beep that we wanted, it was hard to pinpoint exactly were he was swearing.
Another challenge we faced while editing was we where trying to make the movie longer by finding parts that we could put in slow motion. Finding these parts was rather difficult. We managed to find some parts that we could make slower.
We tried to stay on topic with our film but it did not work out so well. Part of our video was the same as our storyboard. The scene in the room, washroom, and getting outside of the house was the same as the storyboard but after that we got off topic. Ethan broke his leg after jumping off the roof, which was not part of the film. Even though we did not stick to our storyboard, I think that our editing is going to make up for it. I think that part of our film was successfully translated but the second half was not.
Overall our group worked well together. We did not have any disagreements between the three of us. We all had the same ideas and always agreed. I don’t remember all the decisions I made but one was having the camera pointed at the mirror in the bathroom looking at Ethan.
