One Word Film

For this project we had to create a "One Word Film." After being assigned a word and had to make a short film which portrayed our word. The film had to be able to take place within a minute to a minute thirty and there could be no sound, dialogue, or writing used throughout, limiting us to using editing techniques to show the emotion for our given word.

The word we were assigned for our film was "Anxious"

We decided to tell the story of a girl taking a test and awaiting her result.

Brainstorming Sheet

   During our brainstorming we figured out the types of shots we wanted to use as well as how we were going to portray our word. At first, we struggled to come up with an idea that would work within the timeframe as we wanted to show a girl taking a test but couldn't find a way to fit it into 90 seconds. During filming, the storyboard and brainstorming sheet allowed us to see what shots we still needed to film and helped us keep track of what we had left to do.

I did however, have to edit some of the shots in a different order from the storyboard due to continuity issues causes during filming.

While I was editing, I was unable to open my file on Adobe Premier and ended up editing the film on my phone using Premier Rush.

I feel like we did well with planning the project before we began filming as we were able to follow the brainstorm and storyboard easily when capturing the shots we needed. However, I feel like continuity was an issue after we had finished filming as some of the shots did not make sense in the order they were supposed to be edited in and I had to reorder some of the shots. I also had to get rid of some of the shots entirely as they did not make sense chronologically

Link to project: OWF_Acosta

Camera Shots Quiz

 For this assignment, we were given the instructions to tell a story with fifteen shot types. The subjects of the photographs had to be inanimate objects, ensuring that we used the different angles and types of shots to convey a certain tone instead of relying on body language. 

Using the information we had gathered we not only had to identify the different shots used, but also describe why we chose them and how they help tell the story with no expressions or dialogue.

For my project, my partner and I decided to create a story about characters, a pink eraser and a white eraser, who go on an adventure where they climb a large potted plant. As they ascend up the plant, the white eraser falls behind and begins to grow jealous of the pink eraser. The white eraser pushes the pink eraser off the plant in anger and luckily, the pink eraser survives. When setting up the shots, we had to make sure we showed the plant in a way that made it seem much larger than it actually was using different angles and framing it in a way that made the erasers appear smaller.

Overall, the final result is able to tell a clear and chronological story using only inanimate objects. To improve my work, however, I would make sure the shots had better lighting or play around with editing to use the lighting to better show the erasers actions and feelings. I would also have decided to take pictures outside, as a larger tree would have made the stakes seem higher and the perspective more easy to work with.

Camera Shots Quiz