English: Film - "Ang Kasunduan"

For the past few weeks, we have been working hard on our English subject. The reason for that is because we had to make a film in groups, the film should be at least 5 minutes, and it had to include film shots and angles such as full shot, long shot, tilt, pan, close up, extreme close up, mid-shot, and two additional shot of our choice. The film can be about William Shakespeare re-imagining like Romeo and Juliet, Ten Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew), The Lion King (Hamlet), She's the Man (Twelfth Night). 

The film should be related to "The Merchant of Venice".

What is the film about? 

My group's short film is about an oath or agreement between two family members who are fighting for their own purpose. Person 1 is fighting for her loved ones and person 2 is fighting for her pride and right. 

How is this re-telling the film "Merchant of Venice?" 

Our film is re-telling the Merchant of Venice because of the court scene of the film. In our own film, person 1 and person 2 are fighting for their own things, their family and their pride. 

In one of the scenes in Merchant of Venice, Shylock and Antonio are fighting for their own rights as well, wealth, pride, and loved ones. 

What were some challenges our group faced? And what did we learn from this occurrence? 

One of the challenges our group faced was my scene, the scene is about me getting shot by another person. It was hard for me to act like getting shot because I don't really act a lot and I think it's difficult to imitate a person who had been shot but we managed to overcome this difficulty and got on with our work successfully. 

Another thing we struggled with the memorisation of our lines. It was challenging to remembers our own lines in the film especially, there's no script, it's just straight-up lines we made up throughout the film. We are able to do this properly by repeating our lines over and over again during our free time and practising. 

What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?

What I would do differently if I were to do this project again is maybe practise our lines more, and make sure we don't miss out on any shots in the film. I would also prepare the props and costumes beforehand so that we can easily disguise ourselves as the characters. 

Ang Kasunduan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GcyAbtVDcszEOH5yuM1JpjZ_Z2t8Z2R1/view