How I've Been Spending my Time as a Film Student

[scarper]

I'm currently a freshman at MSUM, double majoring in Film Production and Mass Communications. For our most recent assignment, we had to re-imagine an action sequence without using weapons. No more than a minute long. Here's what I did:

[fastbilly1]

When its magic hour, watch your shadows - at 19 seconds your cameraman is visible. And the train effect was really convincing - Im guessing you shot the train, then right after it passed he jumped off and then put it together in post? Plot aside, the work was pretty good for what it was, I am curious to see how you improve.

I do have some questions for you:
1. How do you feel about the work?
2. What was your biggest difficulty?
3. What was in your opinion, your most difficult shot?
4. What was your favorite part of it to work on?

[Blu]

I loved the action sequence music.

[scarper]

When its magic hour, watch your shadows - at 19 seconds your cameraman is visible. And the train effect was really convincing - Im guessing you shot the train, then right after it passed he jumped off and then put it together in post? Plot aside, the work was pretty good for what it was, I am curious to see how you improve.

I do have some questions for you:
1. How do you feel about the work?
2. What was your biggest difficulty?
3. What was in your opinion, your most difficult shot?
4. What was your favorite part of it to work on?

I didn't notice that shadow until I started editing. I was a bit unhappy when I found that. I wanted to re shoot that specific scene, but there was no time.

I feel relatively happy about the finished work, but there are some mistakes I made that I don't plan on making in the future. Cameraman shadow is one. I had an unnecessary transition at the train track scene, and the cut to the last shot was a bit awkward. I felt very happy with the train jump after I finished editing it. And yes it was two different takes spliced together.

My biggest difficulty was figuring out where to roll the egg. It took us a few different locations before we figured out what wouldn't break it. I think we went through nine broken eggs throughout the day of shooting. The most difficult shot was the egg flying through the air after it left the swing. We threw the egg in front of the camera several times.

My favorite part was the editing. I did really enjoy shooting, but editing is usually my favorite part. Seeing it all come together.