Final Reflection
This is my final post before posting my film opening! I do wanna say I had a lot of fun doing my project and filming. I can say that it was a totally different experience to all the other past films we did in class because my creativity was unlimited on this project. When I was deciding what I wanted to do for my project I had a lot of ideas at first but I ultimately landed on a story about a kid from the suburbs who was pretending to be a good kid and have straight A's, but in reality, this kid skips school, does illegal activities, and overall is the complete opposite of what he portrays.
When I first started I wanted to do a film about a kid with an addiction problem but I realized that there's a lot of films like that so I wanted to be a little different. When I decided to change my idea I decided to do a problem that surrounds my community in a select amount of people. I first got this idea after meeting someone that I thought came from after poverty or had little money because when I was talking with him he sounded like he was tired all the time and had a weird accent which people pick up in those type of bad neighborhoods. When we were dropping the kid off he was telling us how he got kicked from school for having something he shouldn't have had on school campus and got expelled. When we got to his house he lived in a big house and had around 3 cars parked in his driveway and he lived in my city Weston.
After this experience I viewed some kids in school and realized that some are like that as well and they try to live their whole lives like some of these people. That's when I decided that I'll make the film about one of these kids who to his parents is a good kid that gets good grades and is basically the complete opposite of what I just described. In reality he does all type of activities he shouldn't be doing at his age like smoking, doing drugs, skipping school, etc..
Anyways I'm really glad of how the project came out and I really had a fun time recording it with my peers.
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