MOVIE+FOR+ART

KC Hlordsz May 28, 2016

MOVIE FOR ART

For our last project in art the choices were to choose ‘water coloring’ or the ‘filming project’. Pretty much all the students wanted to watercolor, but Princi, the art teacher had tried to convince us to choose filming, so the next day we went to class and she had shown videos from the students from the past doing the videos. Soon after that almost everyone in the class choose ‘the filming project’ instead of the water coloring project. We students first had to make a script and find some actors to play the characters in the movie. We had to take notes on filming--learning to film correctly/camera positions. One person had told me that they didn’t want to do it because water coloring was a better skill to learn, but then again it was pretty much the whole class who wanted to film instead of the water coloring. This project took time, but we only had a week, so it was a rush. But everyone had fun with it, so that’s all that counts.

The video me and my partner made was so difficult to film because we were laughing so hard at the mistakes (we did have to change the script because of it & cut out scenes) at the end we had to add more time into our video because we cut so much we only had 45-48 seconds of film and we needed at least 2 minutes without bloopers, so that was a challenge, but I still made it longer with an intro and a cast at the end of the movie making it 1:48, which was much of an improvement, so I am proud and happy of that. I just hated having less time and how the actors couldn’t be there for longer, so I could make more of the film. To be honest I didn’t want to do this project again because I did it last year and the video was terrible and the program we used made everything messed up. I just didn’t want to go through that again, but overall It’s was an okay film.

In conclusion, I have never done anything like this for a project, so I am new to this. The only connection I have with this is that I have done it last year and had bad experience with it. There was a lot of problems that I had to face. I don’t have many connections because this is my second year doing films like this, so it’s not a change except the program we used, which was from a website to imovie. I do like imovie better than having a website program mostly because it’s much easier to transfer a video on imovie than it is online. Filming was a new experience that I got to learn more about and have fun with it. There is a lot of other programs that do support/help make good videos, but this year might of the been the easiest year to make this video. I had to write and make a film, it a was a cool thing to do.