Reflection
on the Movie
When
I was told that we had to remake one of our papers into a movie, I immediately
knew which paper I was going to choose.
My first essay was about my relationship with Hebrew, and I decided to
focus my movie on Eliezer Ben Yehuda’s arguments in favor of Hebrew becoming
Israel’s official language.
Eliezer Ben Yehuda revived Hebrew and made it a spoken language
again. I loved making movies when
I was little with my friends, but we would usually just come up with an idea,
like a spy movie or an SNL type skit show, and hit record and wing it. For this project I had to carefully
write out a script, come up with characters, and find people to provide the
voices. After doing all that, I
had to review what I had and make sure that I incorporated MAPS and CRAP
principles into the film. After
making sure that I had those in the movie, I began what I thought was going to
be the fun part- editing in iMovie.
I soon realized how finicky and temperamental iMovie is and that it
never actually does exactly what you want it to do. After hours of moving sliders up and down and making sure
that subtitles were timed properly and that music played and ended when I
wanted it to, I was finished. Or
so I thought. After burning my DVD,
I realized that I still had to decorate the disc and the case. After finding common Hebrew words and
phrases for the front cover and making a phonetic Hebrew-English chart on the
back, I was actually finished.
Seeing my finished movie on the projector in class gave me a sense of
satisfaction, and made me feel like I actually created something real. Even though it wasn’t the best in the
class, I am very proud of my movie because of the time and effort that I put in
to it.
