Final Project: 90 sec Video

Abstract: For our final project we created a 90 sec video about three friends who engage in an epic fight of rock paper scissors.

Research/Planing:

Storyboard:

Production Log:

For this project, we started brainstorming ideas first before anything else. My first idea was very big and involved. After much thought this idea was scraped. My partner and I brainstorm some more and came up with another idea. An epic fight between three friends involving the classic game rock paper scissors. We created an entire story around this fight including scenes before and after the fight. We then devised a small scripted (see post) in which we fleshed out the roles of the characters. We used this script as a spring board for the actual production. 

Once we had our idea down packed, we started filming. Filming took a total of 6 hours including outtakes.In order to keep our filming organized, we shot our video in pieces. We filmed each scene in sequence, watched it and then refilmed when needed. Once we had all our footage, we began the editing process. The editing took another 2-3 hours to complete. We spiced our footage together, using transitions to blend them together. We later added sound effects and a song "the final countdown" by Europe to our production. Once we finished our edits we viewed the final edit and finalized out production.

https://vimeo.com/81204296

Self-evaluation:

Initially I had wanted to create a production around my first idea which was the story of the lonely girl, a girl who wishes for friend and is not happy with the results. Unfortunately, we soon realized that this would be difficult, and quite time consuming. Not only this, but it would have been well over the 90 sec limit of the video. Instead we brainstormed again and came up with another idea, epic rock paper scissors. This was perfect for our project parameters as it was a short and simple idea. If we had more time with this project, say an entire semester, I would have liked to do my previous idea. I would have gotten more people involved on the project and would have tried to make the video a feature length film.