Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Failed movie

A few years ago I tried to make a feature length movie for youtube, I believe I recorded my intention  in this blog. The movie was going to a documovie about our amazing world. The project was a failure. What had happened is I tried to make the whole movie in one chunk and I made up the story as I went along. The time line in the movie was getting messed up and it just turned into a mess. Although I failed to make a movie I walked away with a lesson, I learned that to make a movie, the story comes first. When you make a story you have to break the story up into parts then you split the parts up into scenes. If you break the movie up into 15 minute chunks then you can make sure that each 15 minute scene is in working order and would play well on their own. Then you bring together all the 6 or more 15 minute scenes in an editor software and publish your 1 & ½ hour plus movie. 

The other lesson is my voice. I need to make my voice strong and a bit more lively. My short documentary videos are not very popular and that is partly because I am the narrator. If my short documentaries become popular, then I can make a whole movie. So before I make a second attempt to make a movie I will improve my voice, I will record my narration in my car where I won't worry about disturbing anyone.

If my movie is successfully finished, I would call my movie "Alanasis ~ How Amazing" or something like that and it would be about everything that is Amazing. 

The scenes don't need to be made in the same order they play in, I learned that from one of my favourite movies "the thing". The destroyed Norwegian base in the movie was shot at the end after they destroyed the set of the American base. This allowed them to save money. Instead of destroying two sets they destroyed one set and filmed it again at the end as the discovery of the Norwegian base. The destroyed Norwegian base appears near the beginning of the movie but it was actually filmed at the end and edited that way. That is something to think about. The scenes should be filmed in the order that is easiest to do, not necessarily in chronological order. 

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