"Delirium" Short Film Reflection

The script that we chose was my script titled "Delirium". I wanted the film to be about a man living in a small apartment or house and something is living in the vents, though there's a small plot twist at the end. Pre-production was an interesting experience. Usually, I don't have a lot of ideas that are do-able for a short film, they're mostly ideas that would work for animations. Although, I told my friend about my idea and he was thrilled and told me he wanted to create it. He helped me flesh out my idea and helped me create a script for it.

We did not do a storyboard because our film is silent and so the "script" was technically just a shot list. We didn't really have a production team role either because of our small group. The only people in my group were Armin and I, we had talked to our teacher and asked if we could do this with just us because we wanted to create this film and no one else did and she agreed and told me how my friend spoke highly of my concept therefore let us do work with just us. Our schedule was a bit off since Armin works a lot and I had gotten sick and was out of school for 3 days. So, we filmed for 2 days and got all the shots we needed. We overall filmed for about 12 hours. The second day of filming we went to a house that a family friend owned that was about to be bulldozed and it was incredibly interesting to be apart of. The house was incredibly small and was very scary to walk around in if I'm being honest, but it was fun to look at the history. The editing has been a little harsh since our schedules just haven't lined up and because the school ran out of cameras for us to use, we had to use my Rebel picture camera and therefore the quality is terrible.

My role in the process was technically Director, but since our group was so small, Armin and I did everything and just overall worked together to get the shots we wanted. I really didn't learn much along the way other than having a small group with someone you know and can bounce ideas off of is incredibly fun and helped us complete the shots faster and add shots that we thought would look good. The five guarantees were used effectively I believe. Technical skills were used very nicely I thought with our shots and the communication was definitely used because of our constant review of shots and critiquing each others ideas. Leadership was used throughout the film since we also decided from the beginning what we wanted and we sort of shared the leadership role to come through with our shots. Collaboration was definitely used throughout the film because of our sharing of all the roles, technically. Project management is the only thing that we did have a little trouble on but strictly because of our differing schedules.

I think the only thing I would do different is attempt to get the 80D earlier because of the quality of the film now. I believe I would do everything else the same since filming was so much fun and I honestly had a great time. I think I would love to continue filming in such a small group, especially with someone I know, because it was easy to film and it was very interesting to work with my friend like that since we haven't worked in a group with just us ever. Overall, making this film was incredible and it will probably forever be my favorite film that I've ever been apart of, even if it's not the best.