Movies!

These past 6 weeks, in Te Ngahere we have been making movies for the movie film festival in Kerikeri. Our topic this year was taonga o te ao, or treasures of the world. Comparing my original plan from the final movie, I would say that their pretty similar. The only noticeable difference, is that one of the original characters that was supposed to be a boy, became a girl. It was because that person wasn’t at school very often. We didn’t want to stress over it, so we replaced him.  There were quite a few challenges we faced as we were making our movie, but a few of the major ones were, finding the correct backgrounds, having people not being at school, and having a confusing storyline. We did solve our problems in the end, like having to give a role to somebody else because the original person was away too much. I would say that my group worked very well together, because we were all in the same group for movie making last year as well. Something that my group did well was communicating with each other with parts that didn’t fit well, or having ideas on what to do better. Something that my group could’ve done better was to make the storyline more understandable, since there were parts of the movie that didn’t really make sense, or were confusing to others. Advice I would give to next years film makers is to choose a simple storyline. The reason for this is that having a simple storyline will give you more opportunities to add in funny parts, and will let you focus more on the filming, than having to worry if the movie makes sense.