Developmental Workbook: Chase Movie

Developmental Workbook #3 – Chase Movie

Through this month-long process of making a movie, many problems were encountered and solved, I learned countless things on digital editing, and I learned to work with new people. All these aspects contributed to the overall success of the finished product, and the wonderful experience I had making the movie.

Problems Encountered

During the movie-making process, our group encountered multiple problems regarding the actual filming. However, these problems were solved independently and together with my group to create a successful movie. And through the solving of these problems, our skills with using the Mac software increased.

1. Movement of the Dolly and Tripod

Originally, as a group, we had decided to incorporate over-the-shoulder chase scenes to add to the intensity and tension of the movie. However, we quickly ran into problems with camera movement. (Refer to frame 29 on the story board). Although it was easy to visualize the camera movement theoretically on our storyboard, when the actual filming started we found it quite difficult to recreate the stills of certain scenes into moving images.

1. The original plan was to have the camera person run with the actor’s shoulder, but we soon discovered that running with the camera was harder than we had anticipated. Because of our running movements (i.e. uneven gait) the camera shook uncontrollably.

2. We then decided to have the actor run with the camera on their shoulder. We discovered that not only was this movement dangerous for the camera’s safety (i.e. it could easily fall out of one’s grasp), it was also impossible for the actor to point and focus the camera in the desired direction as they were not aware of the camera’s angle when ...

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... Shirley

Animations: Karen

DVD Cover: Karen

DVD Poster: Shirley

Next Steps and the Opportunity to Redo

Although I believe that our finished product was quite successful, if I were given the opportunity to redo it, I would make some changes to it. For example:

• Humor: I truly believe there was not enough humor incorporated into the movie, and that the addition of this humor could have made our movie more fun to watch. It would have contrasted the suspense and mystery exceptionally well, and made the movie a more wholesome, enriching experience for the viewer.

• Garageband: I believe that although the Garageband music in the movie sounded nice, it may have been too synthetic and had too many beats for a chase movie. If strings or a suspenseful orchestral mix was used instead or added to some scenes, there could have been more suspense and excitement for the viewer.