RUN horror short film
Our class watched the short film ‘RUN’ on YouTube by CookieImagination. It featured a man in a grey tracksuit taking a run in the forest before (SPOILER) getting chased and attacked by a monster. We were told to recreate it to a T, with the help of detailed notes that explained every second of the video.
Practice
For the first part of this project, we were put into groups and had one class to fully recreate the video to the best of our abilities. I was in a group with Oliver and Isaac and I was the main cameraman and ‘Runner 2,’ a character that was only on screen for about 5 seconds altogether. In the time allotted for the work, we made a pretty good video, though I think that we still could have done a lot better.
Absent
Once we were tasked with making the official version of our video, we realized we had a problem. About six people in our class would be absent throughout the majority of the time we had to work on it, me included. Because of that, our teacher, Ms. Mcwilliams put us into new groups. I was put in a group with Eloise, who would also be absent during that time. We were able to film in our own time and were just about halfway through editing when different problems started to occur.
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Tech difficulties
We were originally editing on my iPad. Meanwhile of our notes and our play-by-play of the original film were on Eloise’s iPad, on iMovie. But on Sunday, it crashed, and we lost all of the work we had on her iPad. On Monday, the same thing happened to me, and we were back to square one with one day left until our original extended deadline. We were able to restart and finish by Wednesday, and I am so happy with how it came out. It was similar enough to the original video that when played side by side, there were just a few differences.
Final Product
Our final video was almost exactly one minute and seventeen seconds, which was the goal. We tried our best to have each clip almost exactly as long as they were meant to be and created all of our own sound effects. My favourite detail of the video is definitely during the end credits, where I added a ‘watch next’ box that almost completely covered the words, mimicking what happened every time we watched the video on youtube in the class. We learned a lot about planning a screenplay, and a script, or a timeline. We learned about how tiny little changes, like clips or sound effects can change the tone from comical to dramatic, from scary to embarrassing. I also really enjoyed the technical aspect of it, other than the difficulty we had with iMovie. I hope you enjoyed.