One Word Film Project

Sunday, September 21, 2025

One Word Film Project

     For this project, we were to create a 60-90 second video to describe a specific word. The video could not include sound and it needed to have some of the techniques we have learned about during class. Each pair was given a word at random.

     Due to the fact that our assigned word was remorse, we came up with a story to represent that word. My partner and I both brainstormed ideas and found the best fit story. (A quick summary of our video: Two friends are in class. The main character forgot to bring her calculator for a test and stole one from her friend. After seeing her friend anxiously try to look for it, she remorsefully returns the calculator and takes the test without it.) After we created the outline, we planned out our shots by making a storyboard. This was extremely helpful for us to get a better visualization of what types of scenes we wanted to film in the project. We created different ways to incorporate some techniques from our past lessons into our video. For example, we used many two shots because our story mostly revolves around two characters and their relationship. After filming all of the scenes, we used Adobe Express to edit all of the shots together and finished the project.

    I believe my partner and I managed our time very well when shooting. It took one class period to film, and another class period to edit. Although some of the editing could have been improved, such as the zooming on the school board, I think we did a great job in connecting all of the scenes together where it makes sense. We filmed all of the types of shots correctly and it is easy to recognize which techniques are being used. Overall, this project was a success as we were able to create a story that can certainly understandable by anyone who views it.

Sample of the storyboard process (page 2)

Project Link: https://new.express.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:46dd7a7e-d88c-485a-a7f2-cbacf6634a00?invite=true&accept=true?preload=sharesheet

Friday, August 28, 2025

Camera shots/angles quiz

    For this quiz, we were instructed to make a story in exactly 15 pictures. The pictures were required to use certain shots and angles that were listed by the teacher.

    I wanted to make my story very straight forward and as clear as possible, since we could only use a limited amount of pictures. My partner and I created a story where a group of school supplies take a boat ride inside the Everglades. They encounter a wild alligator (stapler) and try to escape to avoid being eaten.

    The genre of this story is horror. That being said, I wanted to capture the expressions of the characters faces. I made two faces for each character, a happy one, and a scared one. Facial expressions were very necessary to understand how the school supplies reacted to the dangerous stapler. There is also a sense of romantic tragedy with the pen and the pencil. As the pencil gets eaten by the alligator, the pen looks devastated as his lover is dying. There is a two-shot of them being seen together, although I wish I would have shown their relationship in a deeper connection so the pencil's death seemed more tragic. There is an over the shoulder shot as the pencil is getting eaten to show that the stapler has more power over the weak pencil. One of my favorite shots is the extreme close-up on the stapler's teeth. This was done to show how threatening and vicious it was to the supplies. The very last picture shows a high angled establishing shot, which illustrates the alligator eating the pencil, and the eraser and highlighter swimming away. However, the small detail in that photo is that the pen, who is the furthest from the land, is still looking at the pencil in complete shock, as he had just lost the love of his life. I could have done a better job in emphasizing the pen's sadness by adding a close-up shot of his reaction to the pencil's death. Overall, it is a simple but eventful story and my partner and I did a good job in executing the shots.

Camera Shots Quiz.pptx

Amanda

I am creating this blog for my AICE media studies class.