Post Production

Looking at my first rough cut, I have noticed that the media product that my group created didn't really convey the meaning of what it was supposed to. So our teacher had enlightened us of things we needed to critique such as cutting out the dialogue and adding a dream sequence to give the intended meaning of the horror movie. When editing our production we mostly used straight cuts to show the different areas of the school/library, a shot reverse shot was also used in order to demonstrate that dialogue was taking place, and  dissolves to express that its a dream sequence as well as to show that the opening scene has started after the branding.

Technology:

• From the start and to the end of filmmaking, we used technology that was easily accessible for us like a iPhone 11 and iPhone 12. During this we had to switch between devices considering the fact that we had storage problems with the 12 so we went to the 11 though they had different qualities so we had to change the camera settings to 4k. 

• From what I've learned from postproduction technologies, the second time we filmed we ran into a branding issue were we tried to remove the clothing brands from clothing by using photoshop but once I tried editing the video on photoshop I realized that in order to remove the brand you had to erase it frame by frame which was going to take up time so we just re filmed. Then for editing the opening scene we used wevideo.com which was quite easy so we just edited it to our liking as well as following the conventions of a horror film.

Editing:

• Once we started to use Wevideo to edit our shots together, we added a black and white filter over it in order to create the meaning that the emotion of fear as well as mystery. Then when it came from inserting the sound we added creepy music and sounds from the killer to make it a thrill. For other clips we created our own sound by recording it like the knocking, the gasp to add a sense of urgency/uneasiness.