60 Second Video (Gross Feet!)

We had to make a sixty second video with a given prop. Unfortunately, or so we thought at first, we were given a huge pair of disgusting feet. Like really, really, really gross. So we were a bit freaked out, because we didn't really want them in our video.
But once we came up with our idea, it all sort of fell into place. We were at first going to have a new student come in with the gross feet and gross everyone out. But then we realized, wouldn't it be funnier to turn that on it's head and give her the normal feet, but have everyone else with the disgusting feet just entirely repulsed by her normal feet? So that's what we decided to do in our video.
This went surprisingly well in the production stage I think because of all of the pre production that we did. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that in prior project, our pre production was not as good or in depth as it probably should have been. If I were to do this project again, I would even add more to our script and shot list, to make everything even easier in the production stage.
Our shots were:
1. The classroom. We went for a real sense of normalcy here, so that the viewer is caught off guard later.
2. The new girl enters.
3. The class is really weirded out by her, though the reason is not yet again explained. This creates sort of a casual sense of suspense (not horror movie levels, but enough to be interesting).
4. Then we take a page from some horror movies, and do sort of an over dramatic montage of the gross feet and the escalating freaking out by the new girl.
5. Then we show her normal feet, so that viewer finally understands.
6. Then we go back to the classes disgust, to make sure that the viewer knows it is about her normal feet.
7. Then a shot of the teacher introducing her.
8. Then we see that the teacher also has the weird feet.
9. Then we have a kid with the gross feet loudly ask her what's wrong with her feet.
10. Finally, we have a purposely melodramatic freaked out reaction from the girl.
The End!

Videos Videos Videos

Here I must take a brief interlude from writing to post some videos. The first is my Capture the Fall video, the seconds is my dystopia trailer.

Capture the Fall: Autumn Backyard

This is my Capture the Fall video. As the name would imply, it was shot entirely in my backyard. It's basically just showing that my backyard is full of leaves (which I am not psyched about since I have to rake them), my house is pretty decorated, and I like the swings in my backyard, even though they're not exactly "safe". I shot it with my boring (but dependable) point and shoot, and used the Youtube video editor to edit. I was surprised, but the Youtube editor was pretty good.

Placebo:
The world was in terrible danger. A horrible disease was killing people off by the thousands, until the government, led by the Surgeon General, found a cure. The cure must be taken four times a day, every day, which seemed a small price to pay for your life. But when Cassandra finds herself without the cure, she will learn that the cure, and the government may not be all that they seem. Cassandra enters the hidden world of underground doctors, forced by the government to hide their trade and serve those that the government will not. An ex-government doctor tell Cassandra a terrible secret, one that, if acted on, will cost Cassandra her life. But is her death the price the world has to pay for freedom?