Making a Narrative Film

In film class my second film was a narrative which is different than a documentary. A narrative film is fictional and follows the beginning, middle, end of traditional linear films. My groups film was entitled Nickels and Mimes which is about a mime who gets his tip jar stolen by a couple of bullies, but ultimately the bullies get beaten up by two big "bouncer" mimes. Once filming was done we faced, once again, the mountain that is post-production. We added music cut and shortened different shots, added titles screens and credits, and ultimately had a rough cut. During our rough cut critique we were slammed for it being too short (it was 6 minutes and was supposed to be between 9 and 12 minutes). My group and I had to go back and film more shots and get more b-roll footage (filler) and go back and re-edit. When we were finally finished with post-production for our final cut we barely scraped 9 minutes. We presented our film for final cut critique and it was received very well and my group and I were incredibly pleased. It was a complete turnaround from rough cut critique. We waited anxiously for a week until Dr. Glaros our grade back and we were ecstatic to find out that she had awarded us an A- on the project and we were very relieved.