Story boarding and Filming a scene!

After dividing groups and assigning scenes, we went straight to story boarding.

We took some time to read and analyze the scene, agreeing on what ideas and feelings we want the scene to project. Though everything was going quite smoothly, the unexpectedly challenging part for me was drawing the shots out. Despite having already visualized the scene out first, problems started arising when we actually draw the shots out (How the shots are not connecting with each other, how the different shot sizes and angles are not compatible to the setting, not being able to convey ideas how we wanted,...) but we managed to resolve them after some discussions and alterations.

*In the process of filming

Our scene's setting is in the school's cafeteria which is quite far away from the classroom so we started filming a bit later than everyone. I played the main character A - a young girl who likes arts and doodles, who has just found a new, anonymous friend online. We encountered a hiccup in the filming process, which is that the cafeteria is already occupied for a cooking lesson, so we only have limited time to film in the room. Thus, we had to change the script a bit to shorten it. However, although we were filming in a rush, I'm very satisfied with the final product. Besides, the filming process was fun and I've learnt quite a lot throughout the session, not only about where to place and how to move the cameras, make transitions, but also how to act.

*Final product: