So a few months ago we where given a question to think about, who is in control, human or Environment? Along with this we where told to read the Martian, a book and now a movie. Every few chapters throughout the book we where told to decide who was in control and a few other things. While we where reading this book we where introduced a project, Frankenstuffies!

This projects end goal was a iMovie, and a frankenstuffie (a stuffy mixed with multiple others)
The whole movie had to tell the story of the Frankenstuffies evolution and environment and at the end the movie should clearly state wether the environment or humans won.

To start off the project we had to plan it all out on paper, that meant storyboarding every second of the movie. Usually when we wright a story board we have to include audio, a camera angle, and a drawing of the shot. Here’s mine!

To gain some sense of perspective in our iMovie we where told to make an episode guide, this was basically a letter that we had to wright from our characters perspective. The letter had to basically overview every section of our movie. So here they are!

Before we could do anything we had to actually create our Frankenstuffies! So we brought our animals we wanted to rip apart in class. Before all of that we had to decide what type of movie we wanted and how we wanted the Frankenstuffie to be showed. For example I chose to take pictures of my frankenstuffie at different angles behind a green screen. So before I started this I had to take all my pictures before I started to sew.

Once our creatures where ready we started to get our background pictures and scenery videos. Most people decided to export everything to iMovie and work from there, but what i did was exported everything to explain everything and edit and chop up all the raw clips. Then I looked at the storyboard and tried to time everything perfectly without resorting to the audio.

Once everything was chopped up I exported it to iMovie and sped up or slowed down some videos. Once all of the clips where finished I started on the audio and credits at the end. Here’s how the first draft turned out.

After the first draft we where put into groups so we could pier critique our videos, here’s the feedback I got back:

I took that critique and chose the main ideas I wanted to change throughout the video. I ended up cutting up a few of the awkwardly long clips and adding some more scenes to keep the audience intrigued. I also sped up some of the actions moved by hand so they didn’t look obviously moved. Here how it turned out!

Moving on to the third draft… once again we got feedback to improve it. I started by adding some more credits and apps I used at the end because i felt like they should’ve been included. Next our teacher talked to us about how everybody’s was quite boring, she recommended adding some sound effects or changing a tone of voice. So I ended up ending some sound effects like water splashing or people screaming, here’s how it turned out!

Throughout this project we learned a lot about the Canadian regions and evolutions of animals and how all that works. My answer to the final question was I thought that the humans where in control because they managed to pull together when the environment ruined something. I really liked this project overall because we got to personalize it, and also because instead of just making an iMovie we actually got to go outside and take our own footage and make our own characters.