After all the recent Tape Terror updates, I thought it'd be nice to share a completely unrelated video that I directed off of a script my friends David and Martha wrote. The video is an advertisement for Ladue's "Safe to Share" program, a group of teachers who have declared their classrooms to be environments in which students can confidentially share anything troubling them. This ad is intended to inform viewers of how "Safe to Share" works in an entertaining way.
From brainstorming ideas to making the final edit, it's taken me roughly two and a half months, but I've finally finished my short film "Tape Terror."
Since my last update there were many steps I had to take to get my film completed. I spent at least ten hours every single weekend for a month filming with my cast. I also spent a few hours a week filming additional footage on my own that didn't require the cast to be present. Editing turned out to be quite a complicated process as I had to download my work each day at school so I could work on it at home, only for me to download the further edited file at home so I could take it to school and repeat the process. I ended up staying up very late on many nights to finish a final edit and even then my final product ended up being four minutes over the allotted time limit (19 mins as opposed to the maximum limit of 15) After such a long and complicated process, I'm very happy to have completed work on Tape Terror. It's a project that I'm very passionate about and poured a lot of work into. I don't like every aspect of the final product, but I am proud of the work the cast and I poured into it. There are a lot of important lessons to be learned from this experience regarding time management and setting realistic expectations for myself. A lot of the troubles I experienced during the filmmaking process could've been prevented if I'd just taken the time to be practical in my planning. I plan on actively taking these measures in the future so I won't make the same mistakes again. I'm excited to share the final short with you soon. I'm currently out of town but I expect to upload the video onto Schooltube and have it shared by sometime next week once I return home. |
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