Making The Movie: Gameboy (2010)

Gameboy (2010) was a collaborative short film created and produced by Alphie, Justin, Jayne and myself. It features music by our composers, Alfred and Kyle, and background music by Alphie, Justin, Edward and the other people whom are mentioned in the credits! (I forgot... Carlo? Charles?) It stars Alphie and Jayne and there are other actors... I just don't want to spoil it. Here's the premise: A boy loses his most prized possession only to end up finding his true love after realizing what he was missing in his life... which turns out, wasn't his gameboy. However, we find that truly, Andy is not only a "gameboy" addict, he is a gameboy by nature; constantly playing on it.. even in the shower! I think that this film can relate to many people seeing as, a lot of the people born in Generations X/Y had played or seen Nintendo Gameboy's growing up.

Working as a group, we had so much fun editing and creating this final video for our course. Part of our motivation was the tight schedule which we had and the possibility that it wasn't going to make it into the art show. It drove us to our wits and ends by the time it was finished. We went out to our locations and shot scenes. It was easy to schedule our shot list considering we had mainly two actors: Jayne and Alphie. I acted as either cameraman/boom mic operator during the set and Justin played a role or did the camerawork. Either way, we all shared a part in helping create the movie. We all did interchangeable roles whether it was: Camera/sound/directing or cinematography. I think that on set, we had fun and had our laughs but it was a creative process with every scene. We shared ideas on how to make the film look better at each scene. I can recall some conflicts over creative ideas but we compromised in the end. At the same time, we knew our roles each time instinctively. During editing, we would have fun as well as edit on separate computers. This seemed like a good idea until we had to export and combine all of the scenes which we distributed on the different eMacs. All in all, it was a hectic and tedious post-production. (Which is now over on account that the files were deleted and tapes were lost in the process.)

There was some conflicts though especially with the creative visions of the composers. Although we used their music which they composed for the film, both sides' demands weren't met. Due to time constraints and therein, lack of communication, we weren't able to collaborate as much as we should have. Sometimes, we would be late sending in our material and that postponed their parts in composing. However, we did use all of the songs in which they produced for us. Since this was our first film production, I think that this was an important lesson that we definitely learned from.

During editing, I created a poster (as seen above) and our production card. We had a fun photoshoot and took some great pictures with appropriate lighting. I created both items on Adobe Photoshop CS3 / cmyk.

Check out the trailer: