movie trailer blog post

the project process

When we were assigned this project we were asked to pick a high school movie trailer and make one recreating it. My group and I decided to re create the breakfast club movie trailer. We thought it would be fairly easy because most of the video takes place in a school library and the rest in the school hallways. We had to plan out filming and planning days for the project which is something my group and I didn't do well on. The next step was to story board, we had to go through the whole movie trailer and describe and sketch out each frame. When it was finally time to film it was very close to spring break, we had two days of school left and we planned to film all of our footage in those days. Unfortunately we didn't get much done those days, the footage we did get had actors that dropped out so we couldn't't use any of it. When we came back from break we took around a couple of days to find more actors. The actors we found couldn't film during the day, they could only film after school. With my job being the videographer my job was to set up the camera correctly and film all of the shots. Unfortunately I could never come after school because I had dance. My group stayed after school one of our filming days, so I couldn't do my job that day. Some days we ended up being able to film in the library and I was able to shoot. When the time came to edit my group and I were not ready. We were filming until the last second and I ended up coming during school to get my video edited. It was a struggle to get the videos on the server so the time was limited to edit.

what i learned

I learned a few things during this project. I learned that project management is a very important part of video production. If you don't plan it out you will end up working until the last minute and not being happy with the finishing product. I also learned that team work is also very important. This was the first time I have ever done a project and all the members in the group don't want to work. It was hard to work through that but I ended up with a final product that I worked hard on.

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