I had to make a film project for my class, however the inspiration of the film was one word. My partner and I had to draw a word from a cup where we got the word "contemplative". This film could only be a minimum of 60 seconds and a maximum of 90 seconds and it had to be filmed on school grounds in a school setting
My partner is a varsity football player and I am an athletic aid for the football team. With this being said we took the approach of filming this in a football practice setting because it gives a lot of opportunities to make a story based on the contemplation of a player during their practice. This worked out perfectly for both of us because it was still in a school setting and we had a lot of time to film it and get the right angles because we weren't rushed trying to film it all in a class period.
During our time for brainstorming we came up with a game plan of during what time of practice would be a good example to correlate the concept of contemplation into it. We came up with the idea of before the player goes onto the field we go into his head and his thoughts of what bad thing could happen during this play and later him snapping back into reality. After, we wrote down the shots that would help to portray the idea of going into his head and the emotions he's feeling about this play and the possibilities of outcomes.
Using our shot list we created a story board where we illustrated the shots we had in mind. This really helped us build a visual concept of our film and if there were shots we needed to change because visually they didn't seem right. When the editing process began we really wanted to focus on our transitions because in our story since my partner and I were trying to convey the audience to believe we are transitioning into the players head and his thoughts, the way we utilized the transitions we very important.
I feel as if our best part about our film was the way we conveyed our meaning of our word into the film. Using the transitions into the players head and his thoughts, and the way the different angles help portray is feelings of dominance or when's he's nervous. However, next time I really hope we are able to utilize sound. Sounds would have been nice to use at times when we are in the players head and we can do like voices and edit its sound to make it seem like its all in his end and help convey the sense of being in his head.
LINK TO PROJECT: OWF_Anciso_Bass
