Short Film Task - The Boy Who Says Yes

To refresh our memories about planning and filming a project we were given a short task to complete. We were given the scenario of a boy who could only answer questions with "Yes" and could never say no and had to plan and film something that met the criteria within one lesson. I directed the film, Katie was the camerawoman and Ellie and Oli acted in it. However, I was absent when we edited the piece together using Premiere Pro so I watched some basic tutorials on YouTube to refresh my memory on how to edit a short project together. 

What I Learned

I refreshed my memory on how to use the camera's as we all took turns practicing with it before we started filming to ensure that everybody had a chance to familiarise themselves with it. When filming our short film last year, some of the footage got cut too short because we did not leave enough time before clicking record and the actors beginning to perform. We corrected this issue this time by leaving three seconds after pressing record and three seconds after the actors had finished before finishing recording. 

How To Improve

Due to the short time we had to film the footage we did not get to use as many camera angles as I would have liked to. For example, we could have used a match on action when the teacher kicked the bin and we could have used over the shoulder shots or point of view shots of the other students watching the boy and the teachers conversation. We could have also used sound bridges to lay the dialogue underneath shots of the other students to make the film flow nicely and not look too disjointed and robotic. We need to follow the rules of continuity editing to achieve this. We also should have followed the script and storyboard more closely and not improvised some of the dialogue as it did not always sound clear and confident, which took away from the overall impact of the video.