Benched (Short Film) - Video Production

Short Film Creation!

Program (Final Cut Pro) used to create short film.

     Looking above, you may be wondering what that picture is showing. And for some, you may not be wondering because of the caption below that tells you what it is. But to go more in depth, me and my group of 5 people worked on a short film to finish off the school year. We were given a prompt that required you to include certain elements into the film. That includes: A hat, water bottle, "lights out" verbally spoken and lastly an intentional source of light.

Brainstorming process for film:

 
     Before starting the filming process for our short, my group had to brainstorm ideas for our film by story boarding, making a list (costumes, roles, schedule), and creating a script for our film. We grouped together and decided that we wanted a mystery film with suspense. The film is about a girl who is on a softball team and has two other friends who she is close with. One day while practicing, the girl finds herself on the ground and wakes up in the nurses office. She isn't completely sure what happens but knows that something is the cause for her accident. She must then put together the clues that she is left with from her flashbacks to figure out what happened to her that day. After filming, we individually edited our own video\ in Final Cut Pro.

Editing Process:

Editing shots in Final Cut Pro.

   
     The editing process for this video was fun and difficult. We used Final Cut Pro to edit parts of our filmed shots. The hardest part about editing was adding flashback effects and blinking effects to achieve the suspenseful look and since most of our filming took place outside, our some of our shots had windy noises which caused for distraction. Another hard part to edit was the audio. Our shots had different audio frequencies so some shots were filmed with low audio and some were filmed with high audio so the adjusting was hard. Overall I thought each individual edit turned out well.

Audio from shots.

Things to improve on / things done well:

    I thought some shots could use retake, especially the windy shots because it blocked out important audio. I also wish there was more time for nicer edits in the audio area. Overall, I think the majority of it was done well, we had creative shots and a great story line that included all components needed.

Things to pull for experience:

Different effects.

     Things I can pull from this experience is that cooperation is key to a good video. I also learned new effects and edits from this video, as well as color correction for fixing shots that were over exposed. I learned how to create a blinking effect using command P, dragging a clip to make the dark spacing appear then I set that in between clips to create the effect. Audio is important and its good to listen to audio on different computers if you get a chance because audio is different for every computer and you want to make sure the audio is equal. 

     Overall, I learned that setting your mind to something will help you achieve something.

Finished Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx8XcITr0&feature=youtu.be