30sec Film Reflection

  In our hurumanu two class, we made a short 30 second film about a certain scenario. I'll show you the video when I have it ;)

Our film was about a student getting sent to referral for causing trouble in class. The end of the film shows the student being sent out, hoping he had learnt his lesson.

When we were making the film, I enjoyed the fact that I was a background character. My role was the scriptwriter and the extra job, was that I was to hide in the background of every scene and be the Where's Waldo of the film. It felt nice, considering everyone watching it could wonder what I was doing and I'd just be watching a video or playing a game.

What I learned during the filmmaking is that it looks harder than I thought. The planning and things it takes to do one scene is a pain and the effects and sound are hard to acquire without proper equipment.

Some film techniques we involved in there were the shots and distance between the camera and the character. All of the shots were considerably close to the character.

Something we found hard to do or challenging was the sound effects. We would have hard trouble finding the right bits and we were also being constantly side-tracked by the other unnecessary sounds we found.

What I would do differently next time is to do more than what I could. I would like to help my other teammates with what I can do to make things easier.