Summary
Our goal as a team was to make a product that we were proud of. My job as a director was to make decisions for my team. All together, our team as a whole worked really well together and we were all proud of the film we made, especially with it being our first film. As a director, I made a lot of decisions like to re-write the script and modify our original idea by a lot, narrowing it down to something more specific then our original idea.
21st Century Skills
Ways of Thinking: We showed problem solving in completely adapting and changing our original film idea, and creating a whole new script for
Ways of Working:
Tools for Working: Templates for storyboards and shot logs on the internet, studio binder for shot lists, etc.
Ways of Living in the World:
The FILM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBGOkq2xPw0&feature=youtu.be
Reactions to Final Version
I got feedback from Elizabeth about my vision being really clear, and well executed. She was a director as well, and recognized how hard it was to have a clear vision and direct based off of that, making a lot of decisions. I also got feedback from one of the critics, (critic name), that our team had really good communication, so that everyone in our team knew the vision and understood what they had to do to help put it together. The only “bad” feedback that we got was from another one of the critics, (critic name), and he mentioned the noticeable cut in the audio, but admired our sound producer for creating his own music.
Evaluation of Final Version
Simple- our story was very basic and simple, and the script was very short. We wanted to focus a lot on the film making process, and less on how good our plot was.
Unexpected- since the film did not have a lot of dialogue, you had to draw conclusions from what you were seeing. There was not a lot of backstory, so as you were watching the film you didn’t really know what was going to happen next.
Concrete-
Credible-N/A
Emotional- The film showed emotion with the music in the background, and made you sympathize with Damian when he got a C- in the film. The more upbeat music as we had the studying montage, and him getting an A, made you feel happy for him, and like you could accomplish things too.
Stories-
What I Learned and Problems I Solved
I learned that having a lot of communication and collaboration is key. One of the problems I solved was that at the beginning, we didn’t have a lot of good ideas and it was sort of a jumbled mess. I picked one idea out of there, and had a clear vision for it. Because of our good communication, the film came together in a good way, and looked like we thought it would.