One Minute Movie Reflection: Pre-Production

How did you come up with the idea for your movie?

When we started the One Minute Movie Project, we were asked to create the movie based on a situation that could happen in school. My partner, Vendela, and I had many ideas, including one about where the main character would kill the guy, to where she would push him into a pool. We finally settled with a more subtle way of revenge, where she would trick him into sitting in poop looking ice cream.

What was one of you biggest Challenges during the writing process?

Coming up with that idea was most likely our biggest challenge during the writing process, for we were extremely attached with the other ideas. In the end, the ice cream solution was best suited for our film.

Did you write many versions of your script?

As it turns out, we did not write many versions of our script, although we did have many drafts of the first one. Our first draft was the draft that had the ice cream solution and we did not have any other drafts with different ideas.

What was your biggest challenge during pre-production (before shooting your movie)?

One challenge that got in the way was casting all the parts for our film. We had a group of actors and actresses that were well-suited for their parts, but one actress did not want to be their part and wanted to be a different roll. In the end, we had to choose a different set of actors and actresses to be in our film.

Did you use your storyboard to plan your shots? Describe how this process helped.

The storyboard process helped very much as we used it during when we were filming to set up the angles. As a result, the final product had much better scenes when we had good storyboards to that scene.