Epic Ferris

A few weeks ago at MIAD, we were assigned a found footage project in my Post Production elective which turned out to be this at first. We all brought in 2-3 movies each and Ferris Bueller was voted to edit. My teacher then made digital copies of the movie and gave them to us all. We were told to make pseudo trailer for the movie that makes it seem like something else or and experimental film with the shots. Idea's were tossed around such as making Ferris and Cameron seem more than friends, Cameron's Day Off and if Ferris and Sloan were figments of Cameron's imagination. This is what I came up with the first time around:



As you can see I tried to be a bit more experimental with this version, trying to make seem as though Ferris is on the run and the genre would be action/suspense. I accidentally did the first skip on the audio when I was editing. I thought, "Whoa! That was kind of cool!" So, I decided to play around with this thinking it was pretty neat. During critique people thought it was a bit jarring at first because it didn't have a visual to accompany the skip and my teacher hated how it ended with the shot of Grace. So I decided to tackle it again. Coming up with this more serious version:

Epic Ferris from Benjamin McNulty on Vimeo.

Obviously, the later is the stronger of the two. I do see this and glad I decided to take another swing at it. I'm fairly happy with the result and just thought the first video was worth a mention because of how abstract I was thinking. It's kind of neat how the idea shifted as time went on and show's a good progression of this project.
Have a nice day!

-Ben