Our newest project in GT is a movie trailer. I'm working with Sophia, Ella, and Cara. Our movie trailer is intended to be a horror but with our acting skills, it might just turn out to be a comedy, no offense to my amazing teammates. In short, our movie trailer is about two best friends, played by Ella and I, in the woods. The two are playing hide and seeks which obviously never ends well in a horror movie. My character goes missing and Ella searches for hours. Desperate to find me, she accepts a mysterious girl's offer to help. Ella follows the unknown girl deeper into the woods until she finds herself lost. Will Ella ever find her friend (me), or will she be lost in the woods with the mysterious girl forever? Anyway, we are currently finished with our plan, we just need to work on the storyboard. I contributed to our plan by drawing the poster sketch. I'm not so proud of it seen as I kind of rushed it but the rest of my team seems to be okay with it. As for our storyboard, Sophia did most of the work. Ella and Cara worked on it generally, then Sophia revised it, and I just kind of stood there and tried to help Sophia despite her not needing my help.
My team and I have met up once, I'm not sure if we'll meet again but its a maybe. So far, we have been able to film all of our scenes successfully. There may be a couple to re-shoot but its unlikely. So far, I think the only thing we are struggling with is our movie poster. Cara and I both have to create one and hers is doing great, its just that mine isn't. I missed almost a whole week of school so I was'n't able to complete anything. So far, I've just started and the images I'm working aren't the best. Another challenge would be our script. We've already written and recorded it, but our acting skills aren't exactly the best. Keep in mind, we're middle school students so not much was expected anyway. Its just that parts of our script were poorly acted, like we weren't even trying. My only "acting" part would be in the beginning when I push Ella into a tree. I don't have any lines but my facial expressions are just awkward. Overall, our acting was a main challenge of ours. I am, however, proud of being able to film everything in one meeting and half of my team's editing. So far we are doing pretty well.
When our project was finally turned in, we critiqued it. We ended up with pretty good results. They were what I expected anyway. I knew our work wasn't exactly overachieving but I think we met the criteria perfectly fine. From doing this project I learned that acting is key in a movie trailer, but thats pretty obvious. I also learned that having teammates that live near you saves a lot of time. Ella lives the farthest away from us and we happened to film at her house. It took a while to get to her house and we could have used that extra time to get more filming done.
