I am going to be dedicating this blog to a review of my 2 latest projects, the film distribution project and the documentary project. I really enjoyed making both of these projects since it kind of felt like it was my first real taste at a more professional style project.
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Film Distribution Project:
This project consisted of a 2 to 2-and-a-half-minute trailer and a teaser lasting 30ish seconds. We also had to make a movie poster that correlated with how we would be distributing the movie. This project was also very cool because we worked with another class called Creative Writing (of level 4 or 5) which gave us the whole story and idea we had to follow. As you know from my portfolio project last year, I like horror, so having a whole thriller/mystery story to create a trailer for was super thrilling and exciting.
A little background of the idea we had to create:
1 of 2 roommates went missing alongside a bunch of other kids at their university. All of a sudden one night the missing roommate shows back up at their door out of nowhere. This raises suspicion and the other roommate begins to question the identity of the other and where she was this whole time. This leads to a little investigation until the roommate who had disappeared figures out that the other roommate is suspicious of her. Finally, the piece was supposed to end with the missing roommate killing the other roommate to cover up her tracks.
This whole concept was very interesting to my group and I. Before starting anything else, we decided what aspects of the whole story we wanted our trailer to focus on and what else we may have to change in the script to adjust it to our filming abilities. Obviously, since we didn't have access to a college dorm, or anything that looked like one, we decided to switch the whole roommate idea to a sister idea so we could instead use a normal house. After this, we decided to focus on the mystery and missing aspect of the movie rather than the creepy and killerish aspect of it. This was also fitting to the materials we had at our disposal for the filming.
Relating back to the portfolio project, this project is very similar to the film promotion project I would be able to create for the portfolio. Although I will say that the making of this trailer was probably my favorite and most enjoyable project to make, I still stand by my idea to create a documentary for the portfolio. The main thing that caught my attention when comparing my project to the film promotion project was the number of trailers we had to create. I know I mentioned this in my first portfolio blog posting but I will restate it vaguely. Making 2 different full-length trailers for the same idea/movie came with the task of creating a whole plot and storyline since both trailers couldn't be about the same exact sections of the movie. That in my opinion seemed like a lot of work, so I passed down on the idea.
Documentary Project:
Saved the best for last haha. Anyway, this project consisted of a documentary that was supposed to last about 7 minutes about basically any topic we wanted. With this idea, we learned we needed interviews to support our ideas and B-roll, which was a new term for us at the time. I don't know why but ever since this project I've been in love with B-roll and the way it makes pieces flow so smoothly.
My group and I decided a topic we could film and research at school would be the easiest so we wouldn't have to take up as much of our own time. So, we ended up coming up with book banning and its influence on teachers and school curriculums.
The reason I also think I can do better with this project again rather than the film promotion one is because of the mistakes I made. Since we had more time back when we did this project, we did a class or two of critiques where other students critiqued your work and told you things you could have done better. For this last project, we didn't have enough time to do any critiques face-to-face or very in deep, so I have less of an idea of what I could've done better (we did still do critiques, but I understand things better when it's a face-to-face conversation). Some of the things I got critiqued on for my documentary I didn't even know were something considered incorrect or not the best formatting.
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