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For my final project I decided to create a roughly 2 minute short skit, focusing on continuity as well as post-production effects involving sound. The reason I chose this was because earlier in this semester I recorded a similar skit which involved 2 characters, but I had the same person play both characters. I wanted to do this again because having 1 person play 2 parts surprisingly forced me to really focus on continuity and framing to make it seem as though both people existed in the same timeframe. Even though it was challenging, I found it to be a lot of fun and made me get pretty creative when filming and editing.

Regarding the actual video, I have written a simple script of two friends joking with one another, until one overreacts and creates a outrageously unrealistic conflict involving supernatural abilities. I mainly created this storyline so I could mess around with sound effects and music a lot, but it ended up having a rather funny tone in some moments. For filming I ended up using a nearby trail, and just had my actor (my sister) use 2 different outfits to play 2 different characters. I also had her do a different voice for each character so things didn’t get too confusing and you could tell they are supposed to be 2 separate people. Before filming I also ended up creating a checklist of scenes that were necessary to film, a method we discussed in class briefly, and it was very helpful to make sure I had enough footage to create my storyline properly.

(The final version is basically the same as the draft since I wasn’t sure what else to change and edit.)

I removed the extra 40ish seconds from the end!

I added the footage from when my group was setting up to film since it seems to golden not to use it.