Upside Down

This was my final project for the semester for my e-Communications class. My partner and I had to create a short film revolving around one of the given themes we had to choose from; we chose "everything changes."

To start this project out we decided to brainstorm a ton of ideas that went along with the theme that we had chosen. Once we landed on our desired story we wrote out a short script of the film. Then we wrote out the voice over that we could plan our camera shots too. After this we made storyboards of our desired shots that helped tell the story in the best way possible. Then we filmed the shots and edited to tell the story we intended to tell.

Throughout this film I learned to have more patience when not working with the best actor(s) in having to keep retaking shots to get what I personally thought looked good. Another thing I learned it how you have to prefocus the lens to a desired distance when having it be inside a door and the character opening it up for them to be seen clearly.

The things I would do different is retake one shot where you can tell the main character is smiling when it was suppose to be a serious shot (to right). The only other thing I would fix is the lighting in a couple shots because we planned a lot of the lighting really well but a couple of shots it was hard to light it well lacking professional lighting equipment that I should have checked out to use.

I would do pretty much everything the same except the couple shots that I described above. Everything would be the same because I felt that we really told our short "everything changes" story in a quick, entertaining, and comedic fashion which is what I was hoping for.

Overall, I had a really fun time planning and executing this film. I will take a lot of funny memories and technical skill improvements from this project. This was one of my favorite videos that I have made yet in my film career!

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