Film Festival Making (Extension)

Introduction: This term in extension we have been creating and planning our film festival movie. To begin this movie we had to first brainstorm, storyboarding and thinking on what movie we should create.

Movie ideas: The first thing that we had to do was think of a movie to create. There were lots of amazing ideas given from each person in the classroom including Mrs Burton. What we mostly wanted in our movie was parody and satire. The movie idea that Emzjull, YiYi and I wanted to do was called ”The shared dream ”. The movie was based on squid games. To figure out what movie we are going to do. Mrs Burton created a goggle form for us to vote on what movie we wanted to do. Sadly our movie didn’t get chosen. Why? well because we found out that the movie was going to be too long because of how many games that we would have to play. The movie idea that had the most votes was ”From the start”. Which is a love song. For this movie we were going to be singing too things we love instead of people we love.

Parody & Satire: Before brainstorming we had to first research on what parody and satire means. How we researched is by going onto goggle and asking what it means. What parody means is imitating a song into your own lyrics. The meaning of satire is making fun of something or someone to make them look funny. If you would like to check out our goggle Slides then just look down below.

Brainstorming/Storyboarding: After doing all of that we got to finally begin brainstorming. To brainstorm we had to get into groups of 4 or 5. My group of four was YiYi, Emzjull and Jordyn. What we had to first do was choose lyrics from the song that we were going to want to act in. My partner was YiYi and Emzjull was partners with Jordyn. Emzjull and Jordyn were wanting to sing about netball. Then YiYi and I wanted to sing to KFC because we LOVE KFC SO MUCH. How we brainstormed was by drawing scenes onto paper that we were wanting to do in the movie. Brainstorming was so much fun.

Acting:Finally acting time. Me and YiYi got to record our scene in the staffroom. While acting I was feeling really uncomfortable because everyone was watching me. I just don’t think acting is for me. Even though I still think YiYi and I did very well. What YiYi and I had to act out was that I had to grab the KFC bucket then YiYi grabbed it. I got very mad and then I gave her a BIG SIDE EYE. What then happens is that YiYi suddenly becomes a chicken by wearing a chicken hat. That’s when I had to act in shock. Which I was REALLY bad at.

Editing: Me, Emzjull and YiYi got the opportunity to edit our film festival movie. Editing was so much fun. I really enjoyed learning new things along the way. What I learnt was how to slow down the video if needed or even to make the video faster. What I thought was very annoying was that sometimes when I was trying to edit the animations into the video it was very hard to figure out why it wasn’t appearing.

Conclusion: Overall I honestly think that I did a great job this term. I think that next time I will show better acting skills and I will build up my confidence. I hope that you all enjoy checking out my film festival making task. Remember to leave a positive comment on my blog, thank you. If you would like to check out our storyboard click here – Storyboard (Year 7_8 Extension)