For this weeks tutorial, we were to make a one shot film that told a story about a misunderstanding.
Our group this week really took the time to understand and plan what we were going to do. We came up with an idea about someone accidentally going to the wrong place and slowly morphed it into what we have above, which is a misunderstanding of body language.
We made a story board of what we wanted to get, which we used as a guide when we started filming. When we got on set, there was a disagreement about how to end the film. Nearly everyone in the group wanted to go down the ‘easy camera movement’ direction which would make the camera persons job easier but essentially lacked depth. One person argued very strongly for the version we ended up using, which had more dynamic shots and told the story better. We decided to film both, and after deciding on the second option, spent a lot of time perfecting that.
In terms of things we could have improved on: I was meant to provide our actor with a piece of paper before each take so that she’d have something to write on. I forgot to do that this take, so I could work on organisation. I personally think that we should’ve got a shot of the phone number she wrote down, either within the bin or when she first hands it to him, but the film still works without it.
I think this is one of the most successful projects I’ve been a part of thus far. It was fun and told a good story, and everyone’s voice was heard. We all put in the same amount of work and it was a very equal project.