The task in this class was to shoot a 30 second short film, firstly I was shown some examples of short films and introduced to a website, show studio, where I looked at a lot of shot film work to give me some inspiration.
The atmosphere of my zine is blurred, with a heavy shadow feel. I observed that the doors of the school had a kind of grainy glass and I thought that I could achieve a blurred look by shooting through this glass. I chose to shoot in a darker classroom and it was fun to video through my glasses because they are concave lenses so I could capture the magic of the distortion. As well as using myself as a model for some of the films of what it was like to watch the world, I also shot my eyes through my myopic glasses to achieve the atmosphere I wanted.
Because of the time constraints, I think I could have shot more film footage after the class, as well as multiple angles, or different camera languages to express my ideas, such as pushing the camera forward, or trying different angles, or some different lighting, I need to experiment more.