How to make a movie for beginner

            On 17^th until 21^st of March, English Letter Student Association conducted an event that called “cinematography”. In this event they learned the theory about making movie, and also practiced how to make it. In the end of the event, the participant should make a final project. The final project was making their own short movie with the original story line from their creativity. Actually, all people can make their own movie as long as they know the steps of making movie.  The step itself is divided into 3 general part: pre-recording, recording, and post-recording. 

            The first general step to make a short movie is called pre-recording. This step consists of brainstorming, and writing the story line. Begin with brainstorming; firstly we have to know what the purpose of our story is. Perhaps we want to raise several issues that happen in our environment and we want to tell the world by making movie.

            The next step in pre recording is planning. In this step we start to draw the theme of our movie. Do we want to make a documentary or a drama? In this step we also determine the casts in our short movie.  The last step in pre-recording is writing the story line. In this step we need to form a script. We might want a tight script where actors speak word-for-word or we may wish to have the characters improvise by giving them a stimulus. Those three steps above are the basic process of making movie, so we need to consider about it carefully.

            The next general step of making movie is recording. This step is divided into three sub-steps; those are framing, storyboarding, scheduling and taking action. Framing is the time to experiment with basic camera angles and shoots, such as: Extreme Wide Shoot (EWS), Wide Shoot (WS), Medium Shoot (MS), Medium Close up (MCU), and Close up (CU).

            The step of storyboarding is breaking the story into scenes just like a comic book, with picture of the screen and the dialogue. A good storyboard will piece together the beginning, middle, and end and help to think of how to visualize each scene using which camera angles and shot sizes. The next step of recording is scheduling. We make schedule of filming the scene. Some actions may happen in different scene but in the same location on the same day.

            The last step of recording is taking action or we usually call it filming process. This is the most important steps of recording. In this part we will record the scenes. We better filming one scene more than once, so that we can choose the best scene to edit. One thing that we must pay attention is about time coding. Time coding is really crucial for when we begin to edit the movie. The purpose of time coding is to make us easier to cut or delete the scene.

            Finally we come to the last-but not the least- step of making short movie. The steps are editing and reviewing (feedback). Those part are called post-recording process. In the editing process we combine the entire scene into one according to the storyboard that we have written before. We can put some effects into our movie by using movie editor software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker etc. once the process of editing has done, we have to ask someone’s who expert in making movie to give some corrections and comment, this process called reviewing.

            After all the process has done and we got the permission to launch our movie, the movie is ready to be seen. Although you are not a professional movie maker, you are able to make your own movie as long as you know and understand the steps above. Just like what john milius said that “Everybody’s a filmmaker today”.

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