1. Task 8
Aims of the brief
We had to produce a short movie, 5 to 7 minutes, titled “The Devil’s Playground”, in
which we have to enforce the message of safety of the teenagers around strangers.
The target audience for our movie are teenagers between 14 to 16 year old.
Planning
Our planning went pretty well. We recorded the whole film in 4 days, and we edited it
in 3. We recorded all the scenes that we needed, so we didn’t had to go back and
record a scene again. The only problem was one of our phones which shutted down
while we were recording, so we had to use another phone.
We have changed a lot from the planning to the movie. We have changed the script
a lot, because we wanted the dialogues to seem natural, so everyone came with
ideas after. We have changed some scenes, and deleted others because we didn’t
had enough actors to realise them. We have added other scenes too, for example
the scene in which the killer kills the 3 teenagers into the house. The location is the
same as we said that it is going to be in our planning. We changed the budget a bit,
because we changed the last scene in which we needed the duct tape and the rope.
Strengths
In our opinion we had some good shots in our film, for example the last scene, when
we included a establishing shot of the forest and then we showed the teenager tied
up by the tree. We took all the shots that we planned to, and we recorded everything
outside the school.
Areas of improvement
However, the quality of our film could’ve been improved. If we were provided with
cameras from school the video and sound would be better, but luckily we had
phones good enough that we used to record with. We recorded with three different
phones, because one of it was our friend’s and he couldn’t be with us all the time
when we recorded, and my phone had some problems and it turned of couple of
times, and we couldn’t open it after, so we used my father’s phone for some scenes.
Another area in which we could have improved is if we had more actors, because
our original scripts included 5 teenagers, but none of our friends wanted to be part of
the movie, all of us, except Ruben, had to record, and one friend of ours, Stefan
helped us and acted in our movie.
