After a tiring week of shooting and editing, the final short film is finally done! The short film consist of element which connects the story with a Facebook page, giving an insight of Keith’s life. The Facebook page works as an transmedia component that ties the story of Keith’s life together. Furthermore, the page also shows other people working in the office that was featured in the short film. Speaking of the film, the character was based on a video game that was played by a teammate, Jamie. We build a character based on that video game, which was then the birth of Keith.

Over the 3 weeks of planning, filming and editing, I am very impressed with the product that was produced by me and my team. This comes to show that with teamwork, we can overcome many obstacles. Although it was a tiring and energy draining few weeks and days of sleepless nights, to see the film come together gives us the sense of completion. Everything went wrong to us, until the very end, even during the day of submission. Audio failure, continuity, color balance etc, but it was all well worth the effort.

Overall, I had a great semester learning from a awesome lecturer, teammates and classmates!

After spending a crazy amount of time in planning and shooting, it’s finally time to move it to post production. Post production is where we put all the pieces of the film together and create the full film. Post production plays an important role in term of pacing the film together, putting a clip too long may bore the audience, too short may seem too rushed and unprofessional. This is also the stage where we encounter problem such as continuity, ambience overpowering the audio, incorrect color temperature and so on. At this stage of the film, patience is necessary and could take up to weeks fixing the film.

Bryan Loh hard at work.

As you can see, some of us stayed back in RMIT until 12AM in the morning, putting the film together. it was definitely a difficult process but we managed to pull through the night. After finishing the first draft, it was then viewed by other group members and giving feedbacks on how it could be improved. Due to the actor’s sudden change in performance, we decided to cut down a significant part of the film out in order to keep it entertaining.

Overall, every group member had to pull their strings in order to get this film together. Whether it was editing or giving a simple feedback, we worked together and manage to create a short film.