Blog: Update

                         Blog: Update

Hello and Welcome back to my blog everyone!!!! This is a very special blog post as today I will be giving the LAST update on our film! I will be explaining how we finished, what we did, and any last minute changes we made in editing! I will also give an overview on our movie opening 'vibe'!!!

    First I want to talk about how we ended up finishing our project! While we had originally fixed the Premier Pro glitch, it started not-working again. So we decided to split up the editing and do it like that. Sofia put all of the clips together in order, did a split screen, and cut the clips to the right size. Then she trimmed it down to get the whole thing under the 2 minute time limit! (This took a lot of time and she did an AMAZING job!!!). Then when she was done with that she sent me the project file and I finished it up. I added the text in the title sequence, changed the color on every clip so that the lighting matched, and added some effects to smooth out and make each clip look better. I also added effects on the words by making them fade in and out throughout the title sequence. This took a lot of time as well, as I had to go through every clip separately and change a bunch of settings to make them all look cohesive in the 'spooky' vibe. Then Amaya and Aleena sent me the public-domain sounds they picked out and I just added them in where they wanted them! Then I sent it to everyone in the group, and changed little things until we all agreed on the final look of the video.

    One last minute change we made to our movie opening was we decided to get rid of the extensive "pointing" scenes. For example, Amaya/Maya stated "police open your eyes and point", and "Mafia open your eyes and point" and then "doctor open your eyes and point". Our original plan was to cut to the person pointing after each of these dialogue scenes. Once we put it together, we realized how repetitive it looked, and it took up wayyy too much time without much purpose. So we just kept the main one - "Mafia open your eyes and point" - and got rid of the other dialogue and insert shots.

    

    We decided to make the overall look of our film opening a 'spooky' and 'old school' vibe by making it look more orange. I made the film look old by changing the color curve and giving it a 'vintage' style. We did this because we all liked the look of the teenage-early 2000's style film opening/TV show! In the end I think this was a great choice and made our whole film opening fit better into our vision and I think that this style matches well with the plot and mystery/horror genre of our film.