Welcome to another post. For the past few weeks in English, our assigned task was to organise and create a short film based on the written play, "The Merchant of Venice".
Our short film is about two friends discovering a map and tracking this map around the globe, little did they know that there was danger lurking in the distance, one of the men decides to take the treasure all to himself with greed but the intruders who tracked these men stopped him and took the treasure for themselves.
Our story retells the trial scene of the merchant of Venice using the saying, "you reap what you sow" which also relates to "karma".
The one additional film techniques that we used was "tracking shot" for this shot we used it to hook the viewer in, and makes the viewer see and experience the side perspective of the characters.
Some challenges that we experienced whilst making this film was organisation and lack of time because on some days not all of our group was here, and whenever we would start filming we would get a little off-task, Our learnings gained from these challenges was that we should have put more depth and more techniques in the film to make it feel more alive, also we learnt to stay on task and focus on what our assigned task was so that we can conquer the challenge of making the film.
What I would do differently next time is using more intriguing film techniques and focusing on completing all of the film techniques that were meant to be used and extra. Also, I would focus more on the editing part of the video and make it more dramatic!.
