Babysitter

I have re-edited the video. This final piece has better sound-effect.

Babysitter: Horror story reflection

Reflection:
As you can see in the video above, we have changed so much of the script. We made all of them die and didn't let the police came to rescue. We filmed this at Hannah's house and spent 3 hours to film all scenes.
There are two thing that we tried in order to make it horror-like. First thing is the fact that we filmed it at night. It is obvious that the horror film should be as dark as possible meaning it should be filmed at night. Second thing is that we created tension by sound effect, such as heavy breathing.
A bad thing or a mistake we made is that every scene was too short and there were less tension in it. For example, the scene where Yuvi gets killed in a toilet should be longer so that it will be more tense and scary.
Also, the modifications in the script might be a little bit too much, but we changed the story to make it more interesting and scarier.
To improve: Gradually increasing tension and the length are the key to success in horror films so I should add those features into our piece. I think Hannah's acting was excellent and should be regarded highly. 

Choreographed Nightmare to music

Member: Ayush, Daoud, Nikki and Yohei
Reflection:
This nightmare is based on the idea that anything is possible in a dream. Daoud is the one who have a dream and Nikki is his mother and Ayush and I are the monsters that appear in a dream. As you can see in the video, Daoud fights with Ayush and I, and eventually lose us. We thought that a dream doesn't have to be realistic or make sense so we did not include any story, but fighting.
We thought that someone that is related closely to the dreamer(the person who is having a nightmare) has to die in a nightmare and thus we made me kill Nikki in the play.
Nikki acted as Daoud's mother and it is understood when she put a blanket on him. She gets killed by me, but revives to wake Daoud up. Although things happening in front of Daoud does not make sense, nightmare doesn't have to make sense and should rather be obscure.
About the acting: I think we did quite well in terms of the quality of the fight and harmony of choreography and music. To be specific, Daoud's movement was very rhythmical and the way I fell down was unexpectedly well. In fact, I felt I did bad when I fell until I watched myself on the video above.
To improve, we need to exaggerate the gesture and move in accord with music.

Horror scene - 12-05-16

Script
Daniel: It's cold in here.
Ayush: Shall we go in?
Yohei: Do you have the touch?
Ayush: Here.
Daniel: OK. Let's go
-Door opens with squeaking sound-
Yohei: What's this?
Daniel: Looks like a painting?
-All explore the house-
Ayush: Oh, there is a bathroom.
-Ayush goes in and fix his hair-
Daniel: Oh my god. He is doing the hair again.
Ayush: Wait, there's something wrong with this mirror.
Daniel: What?
-Daniel goes in front of the mirror and moves arms randomly and Kabir (Daniel in the mirror) synchronizes simultaneously.
Daniel: See? There's nothing wrong with the mirror man.
-Daniel turns around and walk towards the exit of the bathroom.
Ayush: Daniel! Look at the mirror!
-Kabir(Daniel in the mirror) stares at Daniel-
Daniel: What!?
-Daniels turns around again and look in the mirror and checks that there's nothing wrong-
Daniel & Yohei: Are you OK ayush?
-Ayush is possessed and frozen-
Yohei: Hey, Ayush. -Touching Ayush's shoulder.
-Yohei also gets possessed and freezes-
Daniel: Ah, Guys? -Looking at Ayush and Yohei-
-Daniel looks back at the mirror and find himself(Kabir) going out of the mirror-
Daniel: What the... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-Daniel runs away from himself, Ayush and Yohei and as they touch him, he also gets possessed.

-End-

Reflection:
I believe that the script and the concept were appropriate for the horror though the character should have described the house more and create the tension. If we can do the scene again, I will add more length in the scene when Daniel explores the mirror. For example, it would be good idea if Kabir stops coping Daniel's motion after he copied several times and Daniel gets puzzled and turns around after saying "See? There's nothing wrong."

New unit

PSA Reflection

Our topic is the bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a mental disease, which a patient repeats being depressed and manic continuously. It often leads a patient to commit suicide. The possibility a patient will commit suicide is 10% in a lifetime. It causes problems in relationships with other people as in the video and thus a patients often become lonely. Targets of the video above are patients of the bipolar disorder who barely realize that he/she has a mental disease.

The act was done by Niki and Hannah and they made the script. The filming took place in the entrance hall. They are sisters and their relationship breaks up due to the sudden change in Hannah's emotion. Madhav is a writer, editor and explainer and organized our work. I, however, did virtually nothing, except for the little bit of editing and a extremely short narrating. In fact, the acting scene that I took part in was somehow unrecorded and I could not take a part in the video, but it is a highly poor excuse I suppose and is not valid. To improve, we should be more emotional and show our facial expression and zoom in a face so that the audience will understand the seriousness of the disease. Also, we should have made it more realistic by filming it somewhere else, such as class room where human relationship easily breaks up. Lastly, I think the video should have been shorter because it is an advertisement and it cannot be very long.

PSA

Reflection:

This picture represents the scene where a student is being beaten by his teacher and his classmates are laughing about it. We made it realistic by making the student have broken glasses, which suggests that he got punched/hit in the eye. Good things about the picture is that each one of the group showed their emotions in their faces. To improve the quality of the picture, I think I need to decrease the members of the group and take picture with first peson's view or zoom in so that the face expressions are clear. The picture above is extremely low quality in terms of the angle and the ability to make people think deeply about the child abuse.