The Meeting

This lesson we were given the brief to use cameras, tripods and iMovie to create a 1 minute film entitled "The Meeting". Mr. Rosen gave us very little information on how to shoot the film, yet this was intentional because this task was devised with the intent of being an introduction to filmmaking. As Mr. Rosen said, he was 'Setting us up to fail'. Alex, Joey, Jack and I went out and made the film, we tried to use shooting techniques we had learnt from the previous project, yet our understanding of them was not sufficient enough. The film was about a meeting between two old friends, one having changed a lot and has become very confident, and the other is much less brave thus resulting in an awkward situation.

Evaluation

At the end of the lesson we viewed everybody else's final edited film, all entitled the "The meeting". The results varied from watchable to very dull and not immersive. But none of them were of very high quality, this, I think is due to a lack of time partly, but mainly it was lack of applying knowledge. This influenced me to create a few key points that are very important when making a short film. I picked these up, when the class and Mr. Rosen were commenting on our films.

1. Keep it snappy. By this I mean keep all of the shots short and eventful, there was one film we viewed that had very interesting and dark subject matter yet the first shot lasted 1 minute 23 seconds, and not much happened in that time. This completely damaged the atmosphere the film was trying to create.

2. Abide by the laws of editing. Last year we did a lot of studying mainly focused on editing so we do have a good foundation of knowledge that we can refer to when we create our trailers.

3. Make the plot evident. By this I mean do not diverge from the story. This is due to the fact that it is too hard to keep ones attention focused if the narrative has no definite parameters.