Team Project : Stanza Stones

At the beginning of this project, we were randomly chosen and situated into groups of 4's. Our brief was to create two short films based on a poem written and produced by The Tadeeb Writers Group. 

Our initial idea of course was to break the poem down into something that can be understood and interpreted into a short film. 

My group involved Tim Holland (Storyboard artist), Joel McCusker (Actor), Yoni Cohen (Director) and my self Wisdom Makubile (Editor). We worked together tirelessly to break down the poem and that led us into drawing a story board each. We named our poem "Isolated" as it is about a young man who had lost his best friend. After we all handed in our story boards, we had to choose the one which made the most sense in-terms of interpreting the poem into film. 

We went to an 'interim-crit' to get some criticism from fellow students and tutor, we were given an idea of where we were and how we were doing so far with our project. After a few alterations, we were ready to start filming. The equipment we booked was the Sony XD-cam and a tripod. 

We faced a few problems such as needing filming permission and being stopped by the authorities but those issues were quickly solved.
Filming for the first poem took us two different days at two different locations but the outcome was what we intended.


Working as a team was very inspiring even though some of our ideas clashed, we all went with the best ideas. All of the team members were reliable and we communicated well, overall I enjoyed working with them and I look forward to working on the second poem with them.