Film Making

1st, Dec, '14

Today we started our week of workshops, some other people are doing community service or work experience. Today we had film making. It sounded very interesting and we have to do it over two days. Today when we went in it took ages for them to get started because they had to organise the spanish students into their groups. Then the co-ordinators, peter and some other guy (i'm very bad at remembering names) asked us about our favourite movies and what goes into making one. They were the same people who organised the song school workshop from earlier on in the year, that workshop was great so I was looking forward to this one.
After a while we split up into three groups with about 10-12 people in each group, each group had to come up with an idea, title and storyline for a movie of our own and cast different people for the parts, even the camera and sound parts. This was fun. Our movie was going to be a murder mystery with a bit of comedy in it. We wrote out the script (well, i didn't, one of my friends on my team kindly did) and pitched our idea to the other groups. They had some interesting ideas for movies too. One of them was about a persons mother dying, it was a sad drama, and the other movie was about a group of kids being abandoned and found by a murderer.
This is pretty much what we did for the whole day. There were times when I didn't get to do much, but it was fun coming up with a story based on everybody's ideas. I got to play the part of one of the dead people, so the next day we have to bring in costumes and make-up and actually film the movie. I can't wait.
I never realised that this much work went into a movie. It is quite fun but I don't think I would go into the film buisness when I leave school, its very long work. But the acting but is fun.