Memorable Assignment

Lights. Camera. Action! I have always loved the process of creating movies; writing the script, loading on costumes, camera angles, special effects, dramatic music, and long hours of hard work to get it perfect. So when I had the chance to express my knowledge and understanding of a book in any art form, what better way than to portray it through a movie. Along with my friends, we were able to act, film, and edit a movie Mrs. Gilman described as "Amazing", "hilarious", and "hard to top." 

It all began with the book, Pride and Prejudice. None of us had really enjoyed the book but that wasn't going to stop us from creating a movie that everyone else could find pleasure in. After writing a script which compressed the 400 seemly-endless pages into a 4 minute movie, we were off to the dress up box. However, we still needed to meet up with one of our "cast" members who happened to be sick that day. Once the four hours of filming were done, we were ready to edit. Unfortunately, there was no way to get the movie from the camera onto the computer. While trying to import the movie, we some how managed to record over the whole video. We had about 30 seconds of footage left. I remember turing to my group member and saying we lost everything. The Sunday evening was coming to an end and we had no time to re-film for the project was due the next day. Thankfully, after talking to our teacher, we were given one more day to re-create our movie.

I do believe everything happens for a reason, because our second video was far better than anything we had done the previous day. I honestly think we couldn't have done it any better and I think that was present in our movie. I will never forget the endless hard work we put into that movie and how thankful we were to have a teacher that understood all the frustration we felt that day. It was all worth it in the end.