Final Blogs: Final Project- Movie

After about a year's worth of preparation, it was finally time for the last project. This project was to film the first two minutes of a movie. In the first two minutes of every movie, you will see the titles. The titles introduce the main credits. This includes the production studio, the film studio, the director(s), the actors, etc. It was highly stressed that we do not make the movie seem like a trailer. That is why certain movie genres were ruled out when deciding on one for the film. For example, comedy was ruled out because in the first two minutes of a movie it would be difficult to tell that the movie is a comedy. However, deciding on what genre our movie should be wasn't a problem. My group members and I were sold on the idea of doing a thriller. After we decided on the genre, we came up with three different plots. In the end, we went with Aaliyah's plot because it was the most original and wouldn't be too difficult to do. Once this was settled and the filming process began, we found ourselves running into problems when it came to our schedules. As a result, we got really behind on filming, but things began to calm down and eventually, we got a majority of our scenes done to have something descent to turn in for the peer review. After we analyzed what the other group said about our film and it was time to reshoot, we knew exactly what we needed to switch, add-in, or take out. Not too long after this when my group members and I were planning the reshoot filming schedule, the schools closed due to the COVID-19 (Corona Virus) Pandemic. We thought that this would be a disaster, but instead, it gave us more time to reshoot. Even though we didn't have the camera from the school, all of my group members had an iPhone 11 which has been cleared to use for filming. Once we finished filming Lauren began editing and the film came out amazing. Though it didn't start out too great at first, everything started to come together to eventually create one of the best projects we have ever done.