Just a dude that watches movies!

So at long last, the long awaited and hyped film opening! The main talk and focus of all of our previous blog posts has finally arrived! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiW6EZ0qnhA&feature=emb_imp_woyt  

  At the end, we made some last minute edits to fix some errors that were left in the film, one of the main issues was the cast appearing in the background which was a huge errors as they weren't noticed during the day of filming and the main focuses were the shots and the videography. The first error to be fixed was that we had noticed that the cast would be seen in the Background, which on the day of filming, we didn't notice at all. Blurring out the cast was our first solution but it didn't work well as it didn't look well either! We could've blurred the entire background out and we tried but then the Drivers face was blurred out which obviously wasn't going to work, as the main character is the driver who's the central focus along with their mood which is heavily expressed through facial expressions and the actions they do. But Abdullah, managed to make an adjustment that worked to blur the background using blur bubbles to adjust it and tune the windows ...

  In filming, Lightning is pretty much one of the most important factors, it sets the scene, and also defines the horror genre as a whole, its darkness gives a whole massive meaning to the story and the film as a whole. Darkness shrouds something into the unknown but can also protect a character from a threat in the film.  Lighting wasn't really something that was a major focus in our movie. We originally had intended to use lighting much more and create a darker much more mysterious atmosphere but it also wouldn't have worked well, as the editing wouldn't have been easy to do with the dark lighting. In one part though, we did use a fade to black lighting as we originally intended to film in a darker area but it wouldn't have worked how we wanted. The fade to black was used to show a transition from an innocent and happy setting to much more darker and ominous. One main issue we had encountered in the film, the shading between the second and third scenes. There was a la...

  When using the sound for working on the film, we had a wide arrange of ideas for the sound we wanted to implement, like background music and radio noises, but we had a few issues while trying to implement these ideas into the film. For the background music, we couldn't find background music that worked well as the music we did find was either distracting or disconnecting from the film, additionally, it felt unnatural. So we didn't have any background music to double on the realism in the film. For the radio, we couldn't really find anywhere to implement it there as well but I feel like if we had more time then we could've had the radio discusison so it could build more towards the main topic of the film and foreshadow the climax. We added some non diegetic sound so it could be used to build up anticipation and suspense for the title reveal. We had limited diegetic sound with most of it being dialogue and also some additional background noise to make it more realistic.

  So I can't really complain at all about the group I was working with at all not gonna lie. Both of Alejandro and Abdullah are friends of mine that I met as time progressed and as we got through more and more classes in Media Studies and we thankfully had little to no issues, and thankfully, we managed to divide the work between each other to make everything even and fair. Abdullah helped a lot with the editing and had also implemented a wide variety of ideas to all processes of filming. Alejandro helped a lot with the videography and the filming along with also implementing a wide variety of ideas for the filming. I helped out with a lot of the dialogue, the costumes, some of the shots we used and some of the shots I feel like we could've used, etc. In reality, we all oversaw each others assigned roles in the group project and we both were incredibly helpful to each other, along with having any useful words and or critiques that would be applied to what they needed to fix. I ...

  We also didn't make the title sequence to be that big of a deal either since we didn't want a lot of complications and wanted the audience to pay attention to the film and the characters expressions and their motions, etc. We had an arc shot at the beginning with the names of the different actors being shown to credit them and not take the audiences' attention away.  The first portion of the sequence and the beginning of the movie, and then the second part along with the title sequence. Also as shown at the very beginning of the blog, we credited ourselves along with the title of the film and also used the color yellow since its known as one to attract the audience and also has a nice constrast towards the blues in the sky.