As a introduction to our first week back to uni as 2nd year students, we were each assigned groups and given a script called Malac. Each member of our group was given the opportunity to pick a role which we felt would suit us best.
After we had picked our roles we then decided what the malac should be and where the filming should take place.
To help us with the script we were shown a few previous Malac films from a cuople of years ago which were done by 3rd years. The films were completely different to each other with some coming across as more serious whilst others portrayed a much funnier side.
With this in mind our group decided to have a mixture of both as we plan to start the film off with a sinister undertone but towards the end make it more humourous by having the malac as a dildo, however on the day of filming we couldn't get hold of the dildo and instead we had to improvise. In terms of other props we needed for the shoot, as our director of photography was friends with people on Theatre Design he was able to borrow a liquid nitrogen machine to create the smoky effect we wanted.
In terms of the location we decided to shoot in a basement of a member of our group's homes, we also hired an actor for the male lead and I was the female lead.
The filming took just over two hours and during this time we found ourselves shooting and re-shooting scenes we wernt happy with.
When it came to editing the end result was quite surprising as the film ended up being in the style of a movie trailer as apposed to a film.
This caused not only confusion but also criticism from lectures and fellow peers, the group should have been there to oversee the editing instead of leaving it all to one person.
Overall despite the movie trailer inspired edit I was impressed with how the group did and the end result.
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