Anna Lausterer's Media Blog

 For our final cut of our film we ended up not changing anything from our second cut. After peer review, it was decided that we had editing it to the best of our ability during our last editing session and there was nothing to add. This project ended up being something I am very proud of and I believe my group and I worked extremely hard to get it to where it is. Through the entire process of researching, scripting, filming, and editing, our teamwork prevailed. 

 

 This week my group took our first cut and used feedback from our peers to try to get it to its final form. There are still small parts that will most likely need revised but for the most part, me and my group are extremely pleased with what we have created.  Cameron had the role of editor for this film so she was the one making most of the changes. After seeing the first cut, we spent a lot of time deciding what needed to be fixed. For example, we switched the order of a few clips to create a smoother storyline. Along with that, we shortened a lot of the clips in order to build suspense. Our peers had some comments saying that the scene of the clown walking up the stairs lost a lot of the suspense because the actresses, me, looked like she was actually laughing. By taking this clip out, we kept and improved the serious and scary tone we were trying to create. Cameron added eerie music to the background in order to further this tone.  One of my personal favorite differenc...

 This week my group and I met up to film our movie. We met a few road bumps along the way but we managed to work around them. For starters, we had originally planned on meeting on Tuesday after school, but due to the rainy weather and our outdoor shooting spot we couldn’t film. On Thursday, we spent our time after school preparing by going over lines and getting our costumes ready. My role in this movie is playing the killer clown, and due to our inability to find a clown mask in time, I ended up doing clown makeup on myself. The makeup along with fake blood and wardrobe took me around 2 hours. Once we all arrived to our shooting site, we came across another issue. We had planned on using the parking garage elevator for a big part of our movie. However, we came to find that the parking garage we had chosen had no elevator. We couldn’t go to a different location because this was the only mall that was closed and we knew would be empty enough to film. We ended up adapting our script ...