First Cut of Film Opening


 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 and scenes to involve a set of stairs instead of the elevator. This through off some major suspense elements in our movie, but we made it work. The entire filming process took around 1 to 2 hours. 

One of my group members, Cameron, was tasked with the editing portion of this project. For this first cut, we decided to put all the clips together and focus on effects after seeing the final product in order to know exactly what needed to be added. I have already taken note that the order of some clips should be changed and shortened in order to build suspense. Along with that, we plan on adding suspenseful music. The wind was very strong the day we filmed, so on any clips that are slightly hard to hear, we plan to add foley voiceovers.  We are still trying to decide our vision for the credits of this film. Overall, I see great potential but I know there is much to add in order to get it to it’s final form.


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