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Thursday 1 July 2021

Creating Our Own Short Film ~ English

Best Friend Counselling

Our film is based on two best friends (Xavier and John) that are going to counselling to fix their relationship because the have had some tough times, but it turns out that John has been cheating on his best friend with another guy named Frank.

This is a retelling of the Merchant of Venice because we took the main principles of the court scene and transformed it into a modern setting.

The 2 additional film techniques we used were high angle and over the shoulder.
We chose a high angle to make John look weak and felt like he couldn't do anything to help himself, and we chose over the shoulder to give the viewer some perspective.

Some challenges we encountered was that we didn't have that many days where our whole group was at school so it was hard to get our filming finished so next time we will make sure everybody comes. Another factor was that we couldn't find a good area to film because we needed a place that was empty and a place we could be loud in, we eventually settled with our classroom.

If we were to do this project differently I would plan out where we are going to film in advance and actually write a script as we did this whole film improve.