On the 10th of October my form, 4a went to kairos in maynooth to make a short film in a tv studio. Our day started as we left the school at 8:45 and got on a small coach to bring us to kairos. The bus ride as you could imagine was very long and as we are 16 years old we were all hyper and chanting songs. Before we knew it we pulled up to the studio and began to make our film.
Everyone was being given their roles in making the film and I was appointed the role of a female model along with 4 or 5 of my friends in a drag queen fashion show. It took a while to get the day started as everyone was figuring out how to operate their machines and the cameras. Once everyone was famial with their roles and the technical people knew what they were doing we started to rehearse the show.
To start we just went through all the scenes one by one and decided an order in which the show was to follow. The fashion show was the third last act in the show. Soon enough the cameras were rolling and we were shooting the first take of the show. It took very many attempts to get it right by the end of the day we had 15 minutes left and we still hadn't recorded the show. We were given one last time to film the show and we used our last chance wisely and we completed the show to perfection.
To conclude, being in front of the camera can be more daunting than you think and was a really good learning experience. I feel this day was a really good insight into how to make a short film and what's it's like to be in front of the camera.
Everyone was being given their roles in making the film and I was appointed the role of a female model along with 4 or 5 of my friends in a drag queen fashion show. It took a while to get the day started as everyone was figuring out how to operate their machines and the cameras. Once everyone was famial with their roles and the technical people knew what they were doing we started to rehearse the show.
To start we just went through all the scenes one by one and decided an order in which the show was to follow. The fashion show was the third last act in the show. Soon enough the cameras were rolling and we were shooting the first take of the show. It took very many attempts to get it right by the end of the day we had 15 minutes left and we still hadn't recorded the show. We were given one last time to film the show and we used our last chance wisely and we completed the show to perfection.
To conclude, being in front of the camera can be more daunting than you think and was a really good learning experience. I feel this day was a really good insight into how to make a short film and what's it's like to be in front of the camera.