🏎️ How might we learn video skills by recreating a short film 🏎️

Project overview

In this project, we learn how to accurately recreate a film using techniques and ideas we will learn! We make story boards, screenplays, and roles for our group. For our task, we would be recreating a short film. The short film we had to recreate can be found here, and in order to recreate this film we were put into groups, I was in a group with Maya and Gemma.

Our first recreation (made in an hour)

For our launch, we had to remake this video as best we could in only one class. This was quite the tough task and threw us into the deep end of the project, we wouldn’t have had any time to  make story boards or anything of the sort. This is what our first draft looked like: My Movie 11

How will we improve this video?

You probably noticed that I have mentioned story boards and screenplays in this blog post, but what are they? And how do they even help create a film? To put it simply, a story board helps show the cinematographer how shots and angles are supposed to look, it is a way that the person planning the film can communicate what’s in their head to everyone else’s. Same sort of thing goes for the screenplay, it helps everyone understand how everything should be acted out and precisely how everything should look. Aside from story boards and screenplays, the rest of the improving came from analyzing the original film by watching it over and over, getting to know each shot and angle to be able to apply it ourselves.

Improved and planned video

Now that im done talking about screenplays and. Story boards, how much would they help to recreate the original video? Find out by watching it here!:

My answer to the driving question/conclusion

The driving question of this project: “How might we learn video skills by recreating a short film” would be: By recreating a short film, you can learn video skills by thoroughly planning out the video, the better a video is planned out the better its result will be. This is because you can take more time to get familiar with your shots, angles, set and so on just by planning it out and cementing into your head.