Friday, April 7, 2017

Movie Trailer Premier

P1T7_Focused from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
Goooooood evening everybody! Or morning. Or noon. Or midnight. Or whenever you're reading this... Anyway, as the title says, (and as the large film above shows) Our next project has been making a movie trailer for a movie that doesn't exist. It had to be 60-120 seconds long, explain why the movie should be watched (even though it can't be watched) without giving away the ending, and have an epic voice read the script to make it sound.......Epic. Our team members were Micah Miller, (Epic voice guy) Cephas Woodward, (Main character) and Jason Hoy, (Director). In the plan, I was the one that came up with the idea of the movie, with a man trapped on an island with a pair of spooky glasses. I was also the cameraman, and wrote scenes 1 and 4, as well as helping write some of the other scenes such as 2 and 3. So far, that is what I've contributed to the plan. Next paragraph transition GO!


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Okay, so that was a little more underwhelming than I anticipated, but whatever. Anyway, the project went pretty well. The biggest challenge was a failure to communicate some things. For example, we had a very difficult time finding a date at which we could film, and even then sometimes things didn't go according to plan. However, I believe the biggest success of the film was the atmosphere. From the voice overs to the ambient noise, I think we got it basically spot-on for a eerie and spooky type of film. You may not have found it scary at all, but I actually did, and I was one of the people who made it!


So, the critique. Overall, we did really good!  Everyone else in the class seemed to think the atmosphere was good, and we ended up in a tie for best movie with "Don't say it". There definitely were some things we could have improved on, such as some continuity errors and things that didn't make sense. Otherwise, most people thought we wen't above and beyond, which I was really happy about. In total, I learned things about production value, making a movie trailer, and not to get too upset if things don't go according to plan. Oh yeah, and the value of friendship or whatever they want you to learn in those cheesy TV shows. (But I did learn about teamwork, so...)

Anyway, adios until next time,
-Linden.

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