Film Foundations

     Over the past week, I wrote a script for a film and filmed it. I got the idea for the film when I was walking around my backyard. I thought that it might be interesting to film someone trying to sneak into the house from the back door, while someone else was inside, completely ignorant of the interloper. I felt that the ending of the film, where the intruder has hot coffee spilled on them, was somewhat humorous. I filmed my parents, who had busy schedules, so I ran into problems regarding the filming. Because of the limited time frame I actually had to film, I wound up doing it in only half an hour or so. Personally, I feel like the film would have been better off if I planned everything better, and started filming earlier, though I am quite satisfied with how it turned out.     For the film, I tried having the characters be in the same area in multiple scenes, though one character was completely oblivious to the other. The film did not have any dialogue be...

    Over the past few days, I worked on my first real short film. In this assignment, I played around with the lighting, and tried to film in the dark, with the only light being that of a candle and a lantern. It was difficult at first to actually show the darkness, but I learned to use the exposure to change the lighting. I also used sound effects in the film, which I feel added to some of the scenes.      The results went as I expected. I'm not 100% pleased with everything in the film, but I do think I managed to create what I wanted to create.      If I were to go back and do it again, I would probably have spent more time filming. I filmed with my father and my sister, who were only available for a short period of time, so I didn't have much time to film. I also would have filmed it in a larger area; I had to film all of it in a small room, and I had to film in the daytime for some of it.