Chocolate by David Lebovitz on flickr.com
Summary
The goal of our film was to evoke a sense of suspense using beats and cinematography. Our film, Chocolate Love, was a simplistic plot about another student who was madly in love with a kid who wasn’t fully aware, and when confronted decides he doesn’t even want to entertain her.
21st Century Skills
While we were producing this film, we overcame our challenges by finding ways to communicate and overcome problems by finding creative and simple alternative options. We worked together and used creativity and critical thinking to sort through or tasks and produce a film with the restrictions and requirements imposed on us. our communication was a group chat we could use at any time, and our critical thinking was to find a way around restrictions of light and sound in the rooms and time we had available.
The Film
Reactions to Final Version
Reactions from adviser James
“Excellent audio transitions and extremely smooth flow.”
“Looks like you and the cinematographer worked together for flow.”
Reactions from Adviser Michelle
“The actors looked like they worked really well together.”
This was said about the editing in which the scenes were cut to be clean and tight, and the cuts and how they provided good story telling and no awkwardness with acting.
Evaluation of Final Version
In our film, we used concrete and emotional story telling, evoking a sense of melancholy and confusion through the interactions of the two actors. we also kept a simple, yet unexpected design to our story. The film had little actual dialogue which let it tell the majority of the story through cinematography.
What I Learned and Problems I Solved
From this cycle I learned so much about audio transitions when asked to use the J-cut and L-cut. It was extremely helpful to have those required because it made be change things for the better in order to fit those cuts in.