A STEREOTYPE IN A SHORT FILM | LENS BASED MEDIA PROJECT

'Do not judge by first appearances'

For the creation of the group project about "Subverting Stereotypes" I worked with Victor and Marta. First thing I want to say: working in group ended up being harder than I thought. We all have different timetables, commitments and knowledge about camera and editing softwares.

Our job was to realize a short film with a series of photographs in sequence to tell the story. We started to work on a brain storm to come up with ideas, ways to snap but first of all the stereotype we wanted to challenge. 

After chatting on Whatsapp for hours and discarding notes and sketches, we finally came up with an idea. The stereotype about judging people by first appearances. 
This is the story for the film:

Author's own

Happy and ready, we immediately started to work on the scene development on our sketchbooks.

After some quick annotations and sketches, we started with the camera.

We wanted to give more importance to some particular photos, so we played with focus, zooming, cropping and camera settings.  

Victor and me, were directing and photographing together whereas Marta and Pedro (not in our group) were acting.

We used the University building for the office, North Greenwich tube station and a Jubilee line train carriage for the shots.

It was productive, really funny and sometimes a little bit embarrassing with many people around staring at us.

After the 'fun' part, the annoying part of editing and post production arrived. I used PremierPro years ago for literally one day. However I surprisingly managed to work with the software quite well.

We even added seven different sounds: the office, the lift voice, the lift bell, the crowd in the building hall, the outside noises, the train station, the train approaching and the station announcement voice.

Here is a screenshot of the postproduction windows on Adobe PremierPro:

Author's own

After a couple of hours editing, we ended up having a pretty successful final outcome. 

I really like how the sequence flows, the sound fits perfectly and the photographs are good quality.

However I am really happy about it and proud about our team work, I can confirm that Photography or Filmmaking is not the kind of career i want to undertake in my studies.

Here is the final outcome:

Subverting a Stereotype | Short Film

                           YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyYgwGzjpLo