Discuss the use of lighting in your project- how does it contribute to the feel, mood etc. Did you edit the lighting in post production?
The lighting in our project contributes to the mood by giving it a warm everyday feel but then during the lighting dark and dim represents grace’s personality switch in her behavior. Yes, edited the lighting in post production after recording to make some needed adjustments.
Discuss group dynamics- how has it been going? Has everyone been pulling their weight? If doing the project alone, discuss people who may have helped in filming or teaching you editing. You also need to discuss what you have personally felt the most challenged by while planning and creating your film opener.
Our filming as been going good so far. We have completed a proper title and font for the opener and everyone has equally been pulling their weight. We still need to finish editing which might be the most challenging because of all the cuts and transitions.
The software we used to edit our film is Canva. We worked as a group to edit different scenes in the film. I worked on picking a sound track for the film and Krystine and Izzy chose an alarm clock sound and making the film more diegetic sounding. The music genre we added was suspenseful and mysterious tone to match with her picking up the knife. This is what we did for sound in our short film.
-photos of the computer screen during editing
-photos of the students involved in editing
Discuss the following…
-What editing software or application is being used?
We used Canva to edit our short film.
-A discussion of the video effects used.
The alarm clock ringing is a sound effect and mysterious music at the beginning.
-A discussion of the video transitions used.
The video transition we used in our film was a fade at the end of our film.
-Problems encountered during editing.
Some problems that occur during editing is too long of videos, too many cuts and edits, and not being able to film all our footage in the 2 minute time limit.
-Solutions to problems encountered during editing.
Some solutions would be editing or cutting out unimportant footage so we can have our video in the time limit of 2 minutes. We did this for the texting scene in our film!
What are the challenges involved in filming? How are you handling these challenges? Is everyone pulling their own weight?
Some challenges in filming is getting some supporting characters and peoples schedules to film. But we have already made a schedule for the time we are filming and everyone is filming our own weight in filming.
Describe the making of your title sequence. Explain your choice of font/ colors/ style (etc.) and decisions on what to include as a part of the titles. Explain how you/your group arrived at these decisions. Include visual examples of all the choices your group originally suggested and denote which one you chose and why.
Our title sequence will contain a font that represent mysterious tone with neutral colors to lead the audience to graces personality. This would give the story a more disturbed feeling while watching the film. The more elegant and fancy font helps give this feeling. We have arrive to this decision because it fits with our film title Deadly Grace.
My first day of filming went well overall.We were able to use a tripod and find a location to film and captured a lot of footage. We got specific lighting and angles and have behind the scenes. We just need to start editing soon. But we need to still finish specific scenes like when Nate texts Grace and the guy putting on a suit and may need some retakes of specific scenes to match well with different edits.
Discuss the use of color in your project (think back to color theory).
Explanation of supporting character(s):
