Tasks

In class, we have been given several tasks to do in the last couple of lessons. Firstly we were given an object to use as inspiration and told to go off over a 2 hour time limit and film a short that lasts for 3 to 4 minutes. The catch with this was that we had to film in order as we were not allowed to edit the piece at all. In a group of three, my team were given an old broken guitar. We then discussed and came up with the idea to do a parody of a music video. We chose the song Tribute by Tenacious D and filmed in one continuous shot. The idea was that of having two friends sitting with their guitar, the guitarist leaves and asks her friend to keep an eye on her guitar whilst she goes to the toilet. The friend then picks up the guitar and starts playing this song, we acheived this effect by playing the song on an ipod next to the camera. The camera then follows round this girl getting into the song and eventualloy at the climax at the end, she destroys the guitar in the heat of the moment and then the friend reappears shocked at what has happened to her guitar.



This video containss the whole group's stimulus task videos.


Our next task was to yet again create a short film in the space of 2 hours that lasted 3 to 4 minutes without any editing. Our group was told to do something in a documentary style. So, given the time and space we had, we decided to do our piece about school life. We created a rough tone to the piece by putting in varied shots of people misbehaving, we then interviewed students and teachers alike, telling them to act annoyed about being in school and the teachers only being here for the money.

Our final task was to create a short after being given a list of Smith's song titles. Our group chose the title of 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side'. We expanded on this song title by suggesting that there was a boy with a secret. He had lured two young women into a dark and dirty room and left them there to do who knows what with and people were beginning to grow suspicious of him.