Today I will go further into the production of my short film. The focus will be discussing roles in the film. As with every film, different roles are given to everyone for different purposes. The main and most common role is the actor. An actor's goal is to portray a message using emotions and words. For the short film, I will likely continue acting in it along with my group mates. Another role that often gets overlooked is the editor. For this film, Jeni will be editing the scenes once we finished filming. The app to edit will likely be iMovie as it has been used in past projects of ours and is free. Editing means stitching, adding music, cutting clips, etc, which helps in making the short film transition smoother and adds flavor to the scenes. One other role not mentioned yet is the camera holder. While this seems like an easy job at first, being steady yet quick with camera movements can be difficult to get down. Additionally, if the camera person messes up, everyone will have ...
The second part of editing was mainly just to touch up on mistakes and finish polishing the video. The biggest part of the video was including the music we wanted. The song we put for our project was Birthday by Katy Perry. What this meant was that my group had to include the song by downloading it and adding it in production. This was just done by searching it up on YouTube and getting it that way. Once again iMovie was used for the adding process. Without the music the video wouldn’t be the same so it was crucial to get this part right during editing. Since the music was added there needed to be no background sounds or other people talking. This is so people could listen to the music and understand it without interruptions. This meant that other people talking needed to be replaced over with the music which was simple to do. For example when my group was at the park we were singing happy birthday while filming but it had to later be cut out and replaced for the real song. With t...
One tip for making a short film that I got was to subvert expectations in your film. Subverting expectations can help make the film more unpredictable and unique to the audience. A film that has the same ideas and tropes gets repetitive and stale. This can often make it unenjoyable to watch for people. An example of this is a predictable jumpscare which viewers can anticipate it. When the audience can anticipate it, it reduces anxiety and fearful emotions from viewers. A better alternative that was stated is to do something you wouldn't normally do, to trick yourself and the audience in the process. Another idea suggested by the video was to stick to your genre and follow it. In this case, it would be mystery for the film genre being used. An example of the mystery genre being followed would be very ominous music and shadowy figures to avoid the viewers from getting a proper description on any characters or surroundings to help build tension and confusion. Similarly, the ton...
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