Beth's Coursework Blog

This is my final cut. I am very happy with the way my final cut came out. I think my film looks very aesthetically pleasing and the audience can relate to it a lot. My film was very easy for me to make because I play cricket myself and therefore I knew how to make the short film look as professional as it possibly could.

At first, I wanted to get professional actors to be in my film to keep the short very serious and aesthetically pleasing. However, I soon realised that it would be extremely difficult to get the person to Loughborough, Chelmsford and all my other locations that are at least 1 hour and 40 minutes away. I then realised it would be so much easier if I acted in the short film myself. From then on in, I started to film myself during all my training sessions and all my gym sessions because I knew, the more footage I had, the easier it would be to put the film together. I used members of the public who willingly said they'd help to be in my film and lend a hand. Finally, my peers also helped to be in my film, through school and cricket. They were mainly in the sequences that were filmed at school so it wasn't too bad to get them to come and do it, as I did it during our lessons so we were all free.

These are my storyboards. I have made them very brief and simple because I feel I would go OTT if I made them more complicated. they are clear and specific to what I was originally planning to film. I stuck to my storyboard order within reason. I changed some of the sequences slightly to make the film more audience relatable and more aesthetically pleasing.