Creative Critical Reflection

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Final Project:)

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Our Final Project

In the lab (again)

 Hello, for this blog post we will be back editing our new opener. As stated before, we switched our film opener to be more horror based, but we still used some of our older shots from when it was more teenage dream. This means that they were filmed intentionally with high natural lighting and intended to create a mood of joy. Now we needed them to be more neutral, focusing on showing the characters emotions to evoke questions compared to spread joy. Nyles had 3 main things to do now. Color grade to make the shots darker, remove the upbeat music and add ambient noise, and remove/move around shots to get rid of the happy montage mood. 

After this, he had to piece together the ending shots. According to Nyles our editor, this was not difficult and pretty easy to edit as he wasn’t working to blend genres but just connecting parts of a story.

For the audio, he made sure while we were filming that he recorded voice memo audios of our dialogue on his phone in a way where he could easily hear and apply it to the scene. There was some shots that he didn’t record which used the cameras audio but he was able to make it as clear as he could. For sound effects, he used copyright free youtube audios and just matched them to where he saw fit. 

Throughout the project, Nyles used Premiere Pro and high recommends it to anyone editing videos as he found it extremely easy to edit audio, color, and visuals. Thank you for reading!

Creating the Misc en Scene

 Aloha! Due to my group’s change of focus genre, a few things in our misc en scene changed so today we’ll be discussing each and how/why they changed.

Costume: Due to our change of Jonathan’s character as Jasmine’s jock boyfriend to Jasmine’s killer boyfriend we had to chanfe his costume. Since Jonathan isn’t shown until after Jasmine goes outside and looks, his role significantly changes as he loses personality. To portray his now obvious dark energy, he now where’s all black and a ski mask.

Lighting: As spoken about in my horror conventions blog, one of the largest horror conventions is dark lighting/lighting manipulation. In order to achieve this given the story takes place in the day, we made sure to set up my house using curtains and no additional lighting to create a lighting that is dark but doesn’t feel like night.

Scenery: We changes our scenery from high light, natural scenery to a darker empty space. Originally, we were working in a bed room and a front driveway utilizing my house as a way to build a suburban scenery. Now we have some shots which portray this, but our scenery is focused towards the interior of my house. We also made sure my living room was plain and simple so that attention could be directed on the actions of the characters.

Props: We actually didn’t add any new props to our movie opener, but we just used them in different instances.

Framing: In order to maintain our “horror” aesthetic we utilized our framing in a different manner then we would before. We used close ups to show emotion before, but this time we used it to display confusion compared to solely joy. We also used more intimate shots such as medium shots, lose close ups, and cowboy shots as we wanted to focus towards to reactions of the characters.

Thank you for reading! See you next time

Life on Set: episode 4

 Howdy! Today we’ll be looking at my groups fourth day filming. Today’s filming was centered around finishing up our project with the new ending. As I stated previously, my group ended up changing the ending of our opener as we felt like we couldn’t fully convey the off-guard ending in the time alotted and with the quality we were filming at. So we decided to change the ending to Jasmine going outside, not seeing Jonathan’s car, coming back inside, sit on the couch, then either Jonathan kills her, or she kills Jonathan. With this being our 4th time filming, tensions among the group were running high as we were all losing patience with each other. Things got a little heated but nonetheless we continued filming.

We decided instead of refilming all the upstairs scenes to make them dark, we decided to just make are the downstairs shots darker and make the transition for upstairs to down in between. Our film occurs during the day so we set up my living room to be dark but still have some light through windows so that the time was evident. We then filmed Jasmine coming downstairs and running outside. Then we filmed her actually walking outside and noticing Jonathan wasn’t there. This was a fun shot to film as we tried many angles such as side profiles, front, and back. We then went back inside and shot Jasmine walking into the house and sitting on the couch. We then shot two endings. The first one was Jonathan popping out from behind the couch and noticing Jasmine wasn’t there and then she jumps from the curtain and stabs him. This was a little hard as Jonathan was scared of Jasmine accidentally hitting him with the knife but overall it came out as a good shot. The second ending was Jonathan popping up from behind the couch and stabbing Jasmine. This was also a little difficult to shoot as Jonathan kept aiming incorrectly in a attempt to prevent an accident. We eventually got him to aim correctly without hitting her and finished.