Click here to see my final cut film opening

After reading the many peer reviews from my classmates, my group and I came to the conclusion that nothing needed to be adjusted in our film opening. For every negative comment we had, we had a positive one contradicting it. Many people said they were confused by the plot, and others said they understood it completely. Our plot is supposed to be somewhat confusing and creepy and not have a very clear and obvious plan. Some people also said they did not like the panning at the beginning of the video, but more people said they really enjoyed the panning scene. Since every one of our reviews had a negative and a positive, we chose to not change anything.

Film Opening Link

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Film Opening Editing (week 2)

This week, my group worked on editing again. We focused on clipping our film to perfection and adding credits. First, I started off by putting the credits in the middle top portion of the screen but ended up not liking it. Since the shot is panning and moves, the background where I placed the credits was moving, therefore the color was changing. This made the words very hard to see, especially when the background was very light, almost as white as the credits. Because of this, I moved the credits down to the bottom left corner where there was a patch of grass so the words would be very easy to see to the human eye. We also adjusted the color of each shot, making sure our darker scenes weren't too dark.

Film Progress (w3) (editing 1)

This is my group and I editing our film opening. First, we started off by uploading the pictures to Adobe Premiere Pro. The first step we took in the editing process was cutting our film. All of our films was originally much longer than expected because of bloopers and pauses. By cutting those unnecessary clips out, we made our film shorter in order to fit in the two-minute time frame. A big issue that we had to combat was that lowering the exposure, which we used to make the film seem more creepy, but when we lowered the exposure, it significantly increased the noise. The font we will be using for our titles is Ariel. We are sticking to one font only to stay very uniform. We are also planning on having digetic music added to out film to sound like the music playing from josh headphones

Film Progress Week 2

 This picture shows lilys car, one which follows Josh when he is running. We are trying our best to keep the shot moving fast enough but steady enough by using a tripod. We will use a panning shot to follow lilys car, and possibly even shoot from a head-on view as well.

This is the road we will be filming on. We chose a road that looked kind of abandoned but was not too creepy looking because we did not want to make it obvious that something bad was going to happen. This is our establishing shot which is the beginning of our film opening. 

This is the point of view shot from Lily's perspective. This represents the murderers, also known as lily, and me which will be shown soon, following josh and the intentions that we have. This point of view shot is interesting for the audience because it is a different point of view and shows the movie through the murders eyes. 

Filming Week 1

This week for filming, my group practiced how we were going to film and what shots we were going t use. Because all of my group members and I are very busy, we could not film at the actual location we had in mind, so we compromised and did practice shots at school.

This vide of Josh running is at the beginning of our film opening when Josh is casually on his morning run before he realizes anything was wrong. I used a panning shot to film Josh running because I feel as if it added suspense that was present but was not obvious to Josh at the time. One thing that was hard was timing how fast Josh ran. Because I had to follow Josh while he was running, I wanted to make sure I moved the camera fast enough to capture his whole body, but not fast enough to where the camera became blurry or hard to watch. In order to get the perfect run, Josh and I had to film this scene a few times before we got it just right.

This picture is an example of what the closing scene of our film opening looks like. After Josh has been hit on the head by a softball bat, he ends up unconscious in a basement. Josh is a very good actor so there was not a problem to try and get him to act dead. One problem I did realize was that I will need to be far out in order to film josh's' body horizontally laying down. Vertically, it was not a problem, but for our actual video, everything will be shot horizontally.

Preparing to Film

In our film opening....
actors are- Josh, Lily, and Erin
costumes- Lily and I will be dressed in all black, Josh will be dressed in an athletic outfit that he can run in
props- we will be using both my car and Lily's car, and a softball bat
location- a neighborhood on Marco Island and our friend Teagans basement for the final scene
dates and times- dates TBA, time, at dusk
scripts- our film is a silent film and has no dialogue
filming equipment- we will be using Maddie's camera but we will need to borrow a tripod and maybe some lights for the basement scene.