This was my group's entry for the Martin Luther King Jr Contest, and this year's theme was "Love Illuminates Life".
First off, I'll be honest and say this is not my best work. I had been caught up in another project for the last month or so, and didn't put full effort into it, which is not what I had hoped to do. We had this original idea of a bully who keeps beating this civilian down, but the civilian keeps getting back up. He never backs down. This went with the quote that "Hatred darkens life, Love illuminates it." I decided we should go somewhere dark, which probably could have worked better. After we wrote the script and story boarded, we were hoping we could film it outside but weather had changed that for us. Getting close to our deadline, we still wanted time to edit, so we decided to film in out school's workshop behind the auditorium. I think it was a pretty good place, but a man had come in halfway through shooting and stated working on something we weren't familiar with, and putting nails in things quite loudly with a hammer. We finished filming and planned on coming back the next day to reshoot, but he was still there. This caused us to use none of the audio we had captured. Improvising, we used all of our shots, and big thanks to Stockton for finding this very fitting speech by Robert Kennedy. Overall, this project turned out better than we thought it might, and I learned a lot of things I will make sure to carry into my next projects, including some fight scene techniques, low-light shooting and more in-depth color correction, and purchasing the rights to music and things.
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About MeMy name is Graham Petter. I am a junior at Olathe Northwest High School, and I am into cars and films. Archives
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