Reflection on group film

We made our group film in the first couple of weeks of beginning the course. We were put into groups and had about 30mins to think of a concept and draft a rough storyboard. We then had an hour to go away with a video camera and make the film, which we did using the college as our setting. Our film was of the horror genre, the synopsis:- a girl stays behind late at college to catch up on work. As she goes to leave she finds the door is locked, she helplessly attempts to open it as she sees a dark figure on the opposite side of the door holding it shut. The door flys open and the figure is gone. As she makes her escape she is discovers she is being followed and finally chased. It is left of a cliff hanger as to whether she escapes or not. ...however we didn't want to take it seriously so it became a sort of mock horror film- using all the typical elements of a cheesy horror to make a more humorous narrative.

We used technical elements such as hand held camera and tracking shots to create tension and to build up to the climax of the film. We did not have the option to edit the film so we had to film each shot in order- rewinding and re-shooting where necessary.

I enjoyed working with the group as although we didn't really know each other it was a good way of getting to know everyone and we had a lot of fun making the film.