For my preliminary task, my group and I filmed a short movie in school. The story consisted of a rebellious student sleeping in class and being caught by the teacher who proceeds to kick him out of the class. Our group consisted of 3 members, a cinematographer and 2 actors. The film was 1 minute long and took a few days to film.
The first step we had to undertake was planning the plot, lighting and cuts, as well as creating a story board that outlined the film. Next, we chose our classroom as a location due to the clean lighting and perfect setting. After making all preparations we needed, we filmed many different versions of the same scenes using different camera angles and acting styles and selected the best ones to put into the film.
To edit the movie we used iMovie, a simple and easy to use application that allowed for us to create fade-outs and a title page and credits.
Some issues we encountered was difficulty recording the dialogue in our scenes due to interference from other students, as well as a lack of variety in our setting.
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