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madadude posted...

so only the script has been written right? nothing filmed?

Any specific blaring examples you could share, sounds potentially like good content

Nope, it's been filmed and edited. It is just under 7 minutes long and has 36 jump cuts in it. It doesn't explain the main plot device and focuses a minute and a half of the seven minute time limit to introduce characters through means that could be handled in 20 seconds. The actors are clearly not given any proper direction and after being denied the ability to use a 30 page script for the video, the director tried to forgo the script entirely and make the actors improvise their way through the scenes in hopes that it would make the video go faster.

I was told at the end of the first class of the week that they only had four and a half minutes of viable content and that they were annoyed by my attempts to help them when "the timelimit isn't an issue because they didn't even have enough content to fill the seven minutes" I got a text later that night from the director saying that his first cut was over seventeen minutes long and that he hastily cut it down to 7 minutes.

They then went on to claim that the seven minute time limit was a non-issue because "the teacher will understand if we hand in a ten minute version" despite the fact that they asked him Day One about it and he said it couldn't even be a second over seven minutes.

It's a complete mess, but at least they aren't at war with the other groups like the rest of the class is.