Video recording

This week we were assigned a group video presentation assignment. We are required to make a 10 minute comedy drama.

We were shown videos made by our seniors. Personally, I think some of them have done a very good job considering that they were amateurs.
My favourite was the video entitled 'You left me'. It was about a boy who left his girlfriends because of things he did wrong and his girlfriends are haunting him.

I think the video was very well and cleverly filmed. Instead of using an external microphone to film the whole talking process of the video, they had used a voice over method. It was filmed in a way that it was the main character's flashback on his life. That added a sad, sort of empty feeling to the video. It was as if the character was full of regret and remorse.

The camera angles used were appropriate as well. I loved how the camera was focused on the faces of his ex- girlfriends when they told their story. Their expressions were vacant as they told their story, which made the scene so haunting and eerie.

Also, the scene where the main character was having dinner with his girlfriend. The ghost of his girlfriends past starts haunting him. The ex girlfriend was shown to be beside his girlfriend but only he could see her spirit. This scene was acted very well, you could see his face turn pale and scared.

Another good video was the one about cyber bullying. The story revolves around a girl named Ariel. She is new to the school and has a best friend who is bullied a lot. There are three antagonists in this video. They are three mean girls. Ariel starts to get nasty comments on her pictures. She's upset and thinks that the mean girls were behind all of it. The video ends with a girl typing all those nasty comments but her face was not shown, leaving just a tattoo of the infinity sign on the back of her neck as a clue for the audience. It creates suspense and mystery at the end of the video to keep the audience waiting for the next episode or sequel to find out what happens.