Thoughts on our short film

During the process of developing our movie I started to think that the log line for my group's short film wasn't exactly related to our film any more. The reason being because we all had many ideas and the film started to change throughout. We started off by having the idea of making a motivational film about believing yourself then it eventually changed to making the main character who was a rugby player, always came second in things he does and then he becomes first and he was ecstatic about it. He wanted to tell his girlfriend straight away however his girlfriend is always the type of person that always comes first in everything that she does. So the relationship between the girlfriend and the boyfriend is quite tense and puts a strain on their relationship. Now the story that we want to film is similar to the previous idea however now the girlfriend is worried about her boyfriend's future in what he wants to do.

Script Writing

Yvienne and I stayed in in the Jennison's building from 2pm until 2am working on the script for our film. The experience of script writing wasn't so hard. We looked at different examples on the BBC website to help us understand what kind of information we had to include in the script and also we used it as guideline. We also used the storyboard to give us a general idea of what each of the characters should say within each scene.

Character Profiles

On Monday 2nd March my group got together and did some character profiles for the members that were auditioning for a certain character. We had state our names, age and what character we will be auditioning for.  

The Blind Side (2009) Official Trailer - Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw Movi...

This is a trailer movie that is based on a true story of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuhoy who take in an homeless teenage African-American Michael "Big Mike" Oher. This film helped me to understand that this teenage boy had to go through to get to where he is now. All he had to do was believe in himself and have support and love from people that cared about him.

Storyboarding

As a group we came together to come up with a storyboard of what we want to happen in our movie. Each one of us had different ideas that we wanted to happen in each scene. But we were able to come to conclusion of which was best for us. We had five scenes in total. The storyboard is a document that we as a group will refer back to, to tell us what happens in each scene as we are writing the script and filming.

Premiere Pro Workshop

This is was very first time ever working with Premiere Pro and I must say that it was very simple to use. We were taught how to cut out pieces from different clips and also we were taught how to adjust the colours and the sounds. We were told that it is important to know how to adjust the colour and the sound because we want everything to look natural. Also in some parts of the clips the sound may be louder than another clip. This workshop will allow the people in my group and myself how to edit our films professionally and in confidence without feeling like we don't know what we are doing.