In our first short film we took a lot of time planning what we were gonna do for the idea of the film and how we were going to present it, as we wanted the best possible result for presentation to show an array of shots, edits and sound editing, but we didn't want to detract from the short story which is set in the piece.
On our storyboard we set out the shots we needed and these all went from paper to camera very quickly as we set out exactly what we wanted in the frame of the shot in every single shot presented. Of course we knew some additional edits to make to the shots but these were planned in the filming process so it made our lives easier in the editing process.
The location for filming was set in the actual classroom we were set the task but coincidentally it was the only room with a small enclosed interrogation like space for filming our interrogation scene. We found that the difficulties we had were the basic problems such as the little amount of space we had to set up the tripod and get the shot right so that the actors were in shot. Another small problem was the reflection in the window in the last scene where we could see whoever was filming. So to overcome this we only moved the camera to a certain point on the window so that the cameraman cannot be scene in shot.
Apart from those small problems all of the filming went well and moved on swiftly so we were able to finish before the deadline time of filming. When it came to the editing process we moved through it swiftly placing the clips into place. Problems started to rise when we wanted to go for a much more dynamic and stylised way of presenting the titles for Alfie's character bursting in the room. So on After effects i used a freeze frame of Alfie and masked around his body and added a grey grunge type background to the shot and increased the scale of Alfie for dramatic effect and to really give a sense of Alfie being powerful.
We used a range of sound effects to give dramatic effect and also to add a very comedic side to this film. We used low angle shots on Alfie to make him look more powerful than Malachi and we used high angle shots to show Malachi is lower than Alfie. We used shot reverse shot as we switch back and forth from Malachi to Alfie to create this dynamic conversation between them. We used a lot of close ups so that the audience concentrate on the character speaking and it emphasises the importance of what they are saying.
To improve i think we could increase the length of our shots and not make them jump so fast and give them time to pan out without making it so long the audience loses focus. Also integrating the sound into the clip without sudden stopping or starting.
We tried to focus on quite a comedic effect as the film is meant to be making quite a serious situation comedic and we really tried to over exaggerate things so it made them funny. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed making this piece and we took a lot of feedback from other students for our project and we incorporated as much as we could to improve our short film.
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