Week two- 30 shot film

Ahhhh... Problems problems problems....

So here's the story. I was in a group of three making this 30 shot film. Unfortunately I had to change classes, so I never saw my group members again and was unable to get the movie from them. Solution... Make a new film. A friend of mine missed the class for this film so the logical thing to do was team up and make an entirely new film. So I will explain the two processes of making the films.

The first time around was a mix of pure devistation, embarrassment and entertainment and we were given possibly the most painful subject in the room - Waiting for romance.

Unfortuantely, as we were an all-girl trio, we were forced to venture out into the world and, very nicely, ask some kind boys to pose for us.
It was awkward, it was funny, it put us out of our confort zone and in the end we captured thirty priceless photos.
Regretfully, I am unable to show you the final results as I have absolutely no idea how to find the video.

The second time around was a slightly better subject - Late assignment.

We dicided to go for the most obvious story-line. A girl who forgets that an assignment is due and is forced to write an entire essay in just a few hours. Here is is...

My likes and dislikes on our film...
Like:

• I liked the way the lyrics in the song seemed to perfectly match what was happening in the movie at the time.
• I like how we figured out how to slow the music down right at the point that she fell asleep. I thought that was quite clever.
• I like how the clock showing the time was normal until a few minutes before it was due when it became red. It sortof empahsised panic.
• I also like the way the clock became black and white when her assignment became late which brought across that all hope was lost.

Dislike:

• I wasn't a huge fan of our story-line. I think we could have done something a little more original.
• I didn't like that none of us had a watch so Dominique had to look to her bare wrist hoping that the viewers would know there was supposed to be a watch there.
• I did not like the way all of our photos were taken in the one place (griffith library). I think it would have turned out a great deal better if we had've ventured out into the world.
• The photo quality wasn't the best but I suppose there isn't much you can do about that unless you have a million dollar camera.
• Our photos also seemed a tad repetitive. I suppose that would have been different if our story line had some edge to it.

All-in-all, I had a great deal of fun making these two films and, although I believe there is room for improvement, I think we did an ok job.