Creative Critical Reflection

 

2-minute Film Opening: Final Product

 

2-minute Film Opening: First Draft

2-minute Film Production

On my journey of creating a two minute film opening with my teammates, documenting the production of the film is very important. Production in film has four main parts: pre-production, filming, post-production, and distribution. The next paragraph will discuss the team's process in filmmaking.

When in the process of pre-production, filmmakers must plan their movie; they must plan out what is going to be where, who is going to say what, and much more.

My teammates, in my opinion, did not do well with pre-production, nor did they utilize the purpose of pre-production thoroughly. Instead, they took it less seriously than they should, and completed our planning sheet after we had already created our first draft. 

During filming, instead of utilizing the planning sheet, they created the film plot as I continued shooting in the first draft. The second draft was no different in terms of using the planning sheet almost as if they had no idea what a planning sheet was used for. During the process, I feared, and still do fear, that the final draft may not earn a passing grade. The team and I noticed the poor acting in the first draft, so we had switched the roles among three of us. Sarah's actor remained the same, however, I became Kayla, Jazelle became Paige and Alana became the camera operator. 

During post-production, Nicole (Sarah's actor) had the role of editing for both the first and final draft. However, when the final draft was sent off to me, I had to take some matters into my own hands and edit the rest of the draft, making the final product. The issue was that Nicole had inserted the credits at the end of the opening, creating a short film in both the first and final draft. So I cut out the credits and made my own appear during the opening.

Distribution was quite convenient, however. All that was required of me was to post the drafts and final product onto YouTube and post a link onto blogger.

Storyboard Assignment: Teammate #2's work

 In film, filmmakers need to organize their shots, to indicate to the camera operator where to shoot the scene from, when to do so and how the camera should be positioned. For a group assignment, we were to use the shots from the first draft of our film and document and describe the shot sizes, angles, framing and descriptions of the shots. In this blog, I will be discussing my  second teammate's portion of the assignment. The third team member has decided to dismiss the work and say that she was the person who "produced shot pictures".

Storyboard Assignment: Teammate #1's work

In film, filmmakers need to organize their shots, to indicate to the camera operator where to shoot the scene from, when to do so and how the camera should be positioned. For a group assignment, we were to use the shots from the first draft of our film and document and describe the shot sizes, angles, framing and descriptions of the shots. In this blog, I will be discussing my first teammate's portion of the assignment and the next blog will discuss my first teammate's contribution to this assignment. The third team member has decided to dismiss the work and say that they were the person who "produced shot pictures".

Storyboard Assignment: My Work

In film, filmmakers need to organize their shots, to indicate to the camera operator where to shoot the scene from, when to do so and how the camera should be positioned. For a group assignment, we were to use the shots from the first draft of our film and document and describe the shot sizes, angles, framing and descriptions of the shots. In this blog, I will be discussing my portion of the assignment and the next blogs will discuss two of my teammates' contributions to this assignment. The third team member has decided to dismiss the work and say that they were the person who "produced shot pictures".