Assignment 4: I am a superhero

For this assignment, the theme is to create a movie with at least one superpower effect i.e. time freeze.

The objective is to move from a static movement video to a full motion picture and to create the special effects in the video.

There must be a reasonable plot to the theme. I paired up with Weiye for this assignment. We decided that we are going to use time freeze as our superpower.

Below is our storyboard:

Here's how our original story was:

1. Alarm clock rings with a calendar showing an exam on one of the date.

2. The protagonist wakes up and with just a snap of his fingers, his room is automatically tidied up by itself.

3. He rushes to school as he is almost late for the exam.

4. On the way to the exam venue, he suddenly feels very thristy but he forgets to bring money. He sees this poor guy about to buy his drink from a vending machine. He freezes the time and takes away the drink.

5. He makes his way to the exam hall.

6. He takes his exam but he does not know the answers.

7. He stops time and changes the name on the exam papers (which belongs to the guy whose guy is being taken away) to his own.

8. Results Day.

9. The poor guy manages to outscore the protagonist.

10. He fails the exam.

11. The morale is not to abuse his superpower.

This was supposed to be our original plot. I shot the home scene on my own while we shot the school scenes together in school. However, the shots were not consistent so we decided to shoot all the scenes in school in one day.

We planned to film in school on a Saturday. However, to our horror, most of the classrooms were locked. We spent much of our time looking for an unlocked room. When we did mange to locate one and start our filming, a guy came into the room and told us to leave as there will be a class later.

Another round of search began. We found another room but with two people studying in it. However, we just continued our filming. As the filming rolled, we had difficulties shooting the exact positions and moments of the time freeze.

As we do not have enough time, we decided to improvise our script. We removed the home and the exam scenes. Instead, we concentrated on the vending machine part.