Kasunduan - English Short Film

For the past few weeks on English, we have been working on creating our short films. We had to work on our films as a small group while re-imagining the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice, a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare. The films included various filming methods, such as full shot, long shot, pan, close up, extreme close up, mid-shot, and two more of our choice. Additionally, it had to be around 5 minutes or less. 

The first step to creating our films was to organize our groups. We were fortunate enough to choose our groups; our group included Skyler, Janel, Shiela, Axle and me. Afterwards, we began plotting and planning our films and how we were going to re-imagine the court scene from The Merchant of Venice. Axle had an idea of taking inspirations from scenes of other movies, such as "The Godfather" and "John Wick". The main idea of our film, related to "oaths", which we re-imagined from The Merchant of Venice.

During the filming of our short movie, we have used several camera techniques such as the techniques above; and two different ones. The two distinct methods we used were "Eye Level" and "Over The Shoulder" angles. It was rather challenging to keep a neutral face during the filming, as it was hard to stay serious and not laugh during the scenes. If I were to do this project again, I would have probably tried harder on my scenes to make the film look better. Anyway, here is the final product!

Kasunduan