Academic Honesty

The whole class was set a task to make a short movie that has a theme of academic honesty. My group included Måns, Mark, Elvijs and Francesco. The first deadline that we had for the movie was after three weeks that we were given the task. And for that day we had made a trailer for our short movie because that deadline didn't require the whole complete movie. Our idea was to make a movie about two journalists who work for a small office and we wanted to show one of the characters as hard working and honest (me) and the other character as lazy and ignorant (Mark). The conflict of the movie was that the lazy character copied the bosses work from old times and entered it as if it was his own work while the hard working character researched his information and worked hard for the article that he submitted. Two other characters of the movie are also the Boss (Elvis) and a friend of the lazy character (Francesco). Måns was the editor and the main camera man of the movie. We wanted to make the movie with a developing story line where the two characters meet the boss and then they start working on their article. Also we added a foreshadowing of the ending of the movie as a first scene.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRcJxBGc7E

Whole movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaoi44ALsl4

Overall we filmed our movie for two times and it took around 5 hours. Editing probably took the same time or even longer. In order to improve, we should use original songs and not downloaded ones because the movie is anyway about academic honesty. We could´ve also add more aspects of academic honesty than only the idea of stealing someones work. Generally we were happy about our movie and would most likely do the same again.