In maker 10 we’ve recently been remaking videos about humour. I’m just going to tell you guys about our process and how they all turned out.
We started this project by talking about humour, and what makes certain people laugh. We talked in class about the serendipities of humour and the scripted versions of it. Ms. Willemse tasked us with the job of making a video that can make us laugh. Thank god we did not have to show these to the rest of the class, because we also had to make them in 5 minutes. This is a practice of unplanned humour. This is the video I created if you would like to watch it!
I am not gifted with the instant humour, but I did learn that a bit of planning never hurt the final product. So knowing this we were tasked with the job of recreating a video that Ms. Willemse found funny, and it was the perfect length.
My group was Kailey and Lucas, but the film consisted of 2 boys, so we had to pick up another character. I made the crazy idea to cast Kai as our second guy. In class we figured out the filming logistics, and picked which day would work for filming and we got all of our costumes figured out. We used our class time to film and got some of the shots done early, but for the main scenes we left them till the end and, well we payed for that.
We decided to film in the strathcona park because it looked a lot like the actual scenery in the video. I struggled through filming, and took it home to edit it. Kai’s group also needed the footage that we had shot, so I had to send them all of the clips that I had taken. I did the editing and lucas added the sound affects and music to the video.
The video turned out quite nice and I thought that the scenes were pretty accurate. Here’s our first video, it is a recreation of this video.
After we had created it and showed them to the class, we got our next assignment.
For our second project we had to take a bunch more steps to see if we understood the video, also if we can recreate it to the full potential it will be much nicer. We had to make a storyboard, a story spine, and a screen play. We divided the work up between our group and got it done really quickly.
The next step was to talk with your group about props and times that worked well for each of us. Since the movie was filmed in a small room with a basic couch we had to use my house and so we got together and picked a day that would work for all of us.
I totally forgot to charge my camera for filming so that was the first mistake and it really affected our final project because we had to use an iPad for the rest of the shots because I didnt have a back up. The rest of the video went by smoothly, lucas had some great acting and we solved more problems than we faced so it went pretty well. I decided to give Kailey the opportunity to lead and complete the editing, because I had filmed and Lucas had acted. The video turned out amazing and I was really happy with the final project.
This is our recreation video number 2
In the end I learned a lot about filming and angles and I think all of this will come in handy in the future!
Thanks for reading
Adlih
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