First assignment (by Severi)

The first week in Ljubljana has been hectic. Or that’s what I would like to say. Actually it has been quite the opposite. We received the instructions for our assignment at education centre and we continued to work on it on a two day shooting - one day editing schedule. One the first day of shooting we started to work on our first idea, which was soon dropped as we started doubting its validity. It seemed too avant garde for the purpose. Instead of finishing the shots for it that day we decided to use the rest of the day thinking of a more solid idea. While pondering on the subject we might have enjoyed a beer or two, which might have had an effect on the final result.
On the second day of shooting we carried out our plans from the day before, even though we had a few setbacks. Finding actors in a foreign city can be an agonizing task. However, as we returned to our hostel late in the evening, we could be certain that we had all the material we needed in the editing room the next day. It tooks us a mere 3 hours to get the editing done on the piece (granted, it is only 1 minute long), and we received a few well chosen words of praise from our mentor. Where as he congratulated us on the good sense of continuity and framing, he did also remind us that what we had created was not short movie in on itself, but merely an event. This is mind we started to work on our second project, with which we should correct the mistakes we did in the first one. While we are still working on the second film, it would be foolish to say it is all we have been doing. The timetable for our second project is far more forgiving and we’ve easily managed to find time for exploring the city and enjoying our stay. So far I have no regrets.


Our first assignment (Sorry for bad quality. We had problems with exporting.)