I never thought I would watch the same 1 minute video so many times!
Well welcome to PLP 9 where we do the most unexpected things all the time. Like on this random Monday our teacher messages us all and tells us to dress warm. (Not going to lie I thought we were going on a walk or something) and then we get to class and we are told that we have 30 minutes to recreate an EXACT copy of this video:
Yes this is the video that I watched way way waaay to many times…
Driving Question 🏎️:
How can we learn video skills by recreating a short film?
My answer to this question is that we can learn so many skills from recreating a film like this by watching how someone with ore experience films something so simple. We can learn skills by learning different camera angles and different shots that we can reciprocate when recreating this film. Some skills that I learned were different shots to take and the usage of sound and just like with our TYKTWD Video how important it is for a crisp audio.
30 Minute Film Day:
On the first day of filming I had a different group than in my final one because Ms. Mc switched it up a bit while I was away. My group members for our first filming draft was: (Click their names to see their blogs!)
I was really proud of this video that we made on this day (I might even like it more than the other one that took 3 more weeks 🤫) I feel that the video that we made in such little time almost looked exactly alike with the one we were trying to replicate. Me and my group I would say worked well together in communicating and collaborating on our video. Some pieces of work were more unevenly split like the filming and acting (and we had an extra person in our group as well). But all in all I was very proud of this video and I hope you like it!
Back To The Starting Line:
After watching them all in class and having a good laugh we were told that we were going to be making a whole new video! We would have to try to replicate it even more so. So instead of wearing like Christmas pjs wear a grey sweater and a grey toque and some headphones to match the guy at the beginning! So maybe you will see in our next video we are more prepared.
Shots And Angles:
Just like in our last video, TYKTWD. We learned about the importance of using different camera angles to tell a better story and to show the audience more! Some shots that we had to include in our short horror film were:
- Close Up Shots
- Wide Shots
- Back Shots
- POV Shots
- Front Shots
- Worms Eye View Shots
Some were harder than others to film but I had fun being the camera operator and filming all them and piecing them together to make our finals products.
New Group, Recoup
Because I would be missing some classes I was put with some other amazing people who also are missing class on the refilming day! Those people were:
With our new group we discussed some things like our roles and responsibilities and things that we have to be held accountable for during this filming process:
If you look at my newer video and my first video you will see that we did use some of the same sounds like I reused the scream of the runner at the end of the video.
Screenplay? Storyboard?
You might be wondering what both of those are well they are simple. A screenplay is an all word written out detailed dicription of what you film is going to look like. It’s almost like a script except waaay more detailed in pointing out things like camera angles and sound FX. It supposed to written out in a way that as someone who has no context of what’s happening (usually the director) can understand the vision of the writer.
Heres Mine:
Now a story board is a little different it still shows the step by step process in filming and everything expert this time its all visuals! We are supposed to draw some pictures and explain what happening in each box with a picture we also explain the kind of shot that we are using and how long that shot is on the screen for. Ours may look messy but it for sure helped us in the end!
Our Groups:
Official Film Day 🎥
Because I had been away with Julia in Arizona for a soccer tournament we could not film on the designated filming day so instead we met up on Tuesday which was a review and completion day for all students at Seycove. We all met up on the pathway to Strathcona park and got to work. We filmed all the different shots (all 25 of them) and we filmed them for longer than we thought we need them because its better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. I really loved the costumes that Julia as the monster and Tyler as the jogger decided to wear! We may have also used tape on Tylers sweater if you couldn’t tell 😬.
All in all our filming day went very smoothly and also very quickly and although we didn’t film with everyone else on the same day i’m glad we could make the time to meet up and get it done.
Final Product!
I am also very proud of this especially because after all the work we have done to make it up to this amazing final result and it was all totally worth it!
I really loved working with this group and collaborating altogether was so rewarding in the end. I think we all stuck to our roles and responsibilities and I hope you enjoyed watching it and comparing it to our first draft and the original one we were copying!
Conclusion:
I really liked this project and not just because I love horror movies and filming and creating movies like these, I just loved working altogether on same thing we were all proud of! Another thing that was interesting to see was the adaptation that our videos had from the first one that we did in 30 minutes to the one that took almost 3 weeks!
In conclusion I had so much fun with this project and cannot wait to see what else we will be working on in the near future.
Thanks so much for reading! And stay posted for my next post! 🙂👍