This has been a great year and I'm rapping it up for now with this great short film. This video is my semester 2 final and I feel like I improved greatly since the beginning of the year. This short film is about a young detective named Jenkins who must save his rookie partner Reynolds from a great threat. We did have some requirements however. The video had to include: the spoken phrase "lights out", a hat, a water bottle, and an obvious and intentional source of light.
First my group got together and decided on what the story would be. We finally decided on an LA Noir style detective theme, but before that we had many different ideas some of which included a school over run by mafia members, and a boy who is followed by an angel and a demon. Once we decided on our story we wrote a script and made a storyboard.
After we finished with pre-production we jumped straight into filming. We recorded our shots simpler shots first and then recorded the bigger scenes such as the climax and exposition. There were many days when we could not film because one of us was sick or had school work to do. But we did finish eventually and started to editing. 
During post-production I had to cut out a lot of the original footage in order to make the motion continue. Another hard part was finding music that fitted with the theme of the film. I eventually settled on "Black and Blue" by the late great Louis Armstrong.
Along the way I learned how camera movement can be good but not if it is overused. I also improved my skills on making quick edits. If I could do anything different then I would go and film more transition shots so I could make the final film smoother. I would continue to follow the come in early and leave late rule. In the future I will remember to always get multiple angles of the same scene and to make it as smooth as possible. I feel like this is a fitting conclusion to this year of video making and i hope to continue making videos and animations in the future.
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