Project Two

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http://listverse.com/2007/09/18/top-20-best-gangster-movies/


For project two we had to make a short film between 4-6 min. We were given a list of short stories that were to inspire us. My group decided to base our film on the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. Our groups for this one were chosen by the genres we'd got the day before, so our film genre was gangster.

We played swapsies with our members for the first two days and ended up in three person group. I got the job of Production Manager, which basically meant I organised everything. The most frustrating thing was the filming schedule. We used actors from outside the course so I had to time our filming schedule around their own schedules.

Our film was to long so a bunch got cut out during the editing that kinda ruined the beginning  as it didn't make sense.

...and there is an error which means I cant post it up there.

Editing Practice

Tuesday the 22nd, we did an Editing Practice.
We were given a pile of different clips and music ad told to make a short film. We were shown the basics of final cut and sent off. Taking a quick look through the clips I saw a lot with a water theme and came up with this.

I couldn't decide how to end the film at first and only thought of having the shark swimming away when I went to bed, I stuck it on in the morning. A lot of other people also had shark attacks that were basically identical to mine.

On the Wednesday after we did another editing practice. This time we were to use the film the Wizard of Oz to make another short film to a certain genre. We picked a piece of paper out of a box with a genre on it and I ended up with gangster. My first thought was what exactly was a gangster film? Rappers and people in baggy clothes were what came to mind. After a little research I understood the genre better.
My plot was, four members of one gang (Dorothy, the Tin man, the Cowardly lion and Scarecrow) are asked to steal 'the witches broom' from another gang (the Wicked Witch and her minions) by their leader (the Wizard of Oz). On the way there one of the members is kidnapped by the enemy gang. The rest go and save her while also killing the enemy boss and getting 'the witches broom'. It ends when they take the broom back to their leader.
I would post that but due to copyright reasons I cannot.