media studies

https://youtu.be/Eqbd6uwiz9A

We spent about 45 minutes editing our video. Me and Asia edited but we both took turns since we each were editing at school and at home. When I was editing she was suggesting ideas and when she was editing I was suggesting ideas. Any additional filming we had to do was done on the first day of filming so we didn't have to film anything else.  

 The issues that we had during this project was there was an missing actor.To solve this problem we had to make adjustments to the plot.The changes that had to be made to the story instead of their being a best friend and a separate killer the best friend was the killer.During the process of this project i was able to learn how to use capcut and understand editing a bit more. I used things like the different shots when making and filming. for example the beginning scene was an establishing shot something we learned about in class.

  We added many new scenes since our original storyboard. Many of these included the murderer and we did this so that viewers would know more about their motivations and how they were able to kill Kelly. We also added these changes because our intro would have been too short and we needed to make it L onger.

 Most of the lighting was dark as it was supposed to be a party. The only lighting that we used while filming was the lights from outside and the ones from the television. The lighting slightly changed in post production because of the filters that we used. The dark lighting added to our story as it was meant to be scary. Dark lighting was also used mainly around the murder and made it unable to see their face, which also added to their mysterious persona.

 The dynamic of our group is great. The people in my group we have already been friends prior to this. The two extra actors in our group are great and very helpful. Even though one of the actors missed the first day of shooting.Everyone has pulled there own weight. Liana has been helping with most the editing and extra stuff because it is our actual project. Personally i have felt most challenged my the acting and getting the sound right.

 Most of the sound in the movie was diegetic as we barely used any background music. It made the movie feel more eerie and creepy. My partner chose most of the sounds but we collaborated on what type of sounds to choose and we used CapCut to edit and add sound to our movie intro.

We used the Arial bold font for our title sequence. The letters were spaced apart and they have a neon glow around them that goes along with the party theme of our movie intro. We ended up choosing the second font because it had the same style as our movie.

  some of the video effects that were used in making this include the ghost filter from cap cut. this filter was shown when the main character found her friend. There are many fade outs because we didn't want the transitions to distract the viewer from the plot. During editing i had a hard time using the app because i normally dont edit things. i found solutions by watching youtube videos to help me edit.

We went with mostly dark lighting to create suspense Dark lighting is often used in suspenseful films because it creates an atmosphere of mystery, tension, and foreboding. The shadows and contrast enhance the sense of unease and uncertainty. We had our actors kind of in dark lighting so u couldn’t really see their face most of the time. this was on purpose. the only time really we had colors were the party lights that show that there was a part happening.

 There wasn’t many challenges we had in filming. the hardest thing we had to figure out how to do was execute the plot. We kinda just figured out our sciences as we went. we couldn’t go with out original idea because we were missing two actors sadly.Everyone was pulling their own weight and this made it much easier on everyone’s part 

 On the first day of filming we met at my house and we filmed it in many different settings around the house.we don’t know when the next time we are shooting.  the sound of the video was a bit muffled. we had to to record some things because the actors weren’t projecting their voices.We had to reshoot and even with some of the reshoots we still sounded a bit muffled