Creative Critical Reflection

CCR (Google Drive)

CCR (Dropbox)

CCR (Youtube)

Link to final product

https://youtu.be/ExXSRUob66I

editing

The final thing that we managed to get done over spring break was editing. We compiled all the shots that we filmed and put them together. We ran into trouble trying to connect the audio due to some mistakes while filming, but we were able to fix it by overlaying the song in a different audio track. Also there were some shots that did not connect as nicely as we would have liked, so we re filmed some of the ones that did not work out, and we also mixed up the order of some of the shots so that the opening flowed better. We are currently looking into changing the color of the opening to a warmer or colder hue but we have more testing to do before we decide which ones look better for certain shots.

here is a photo of me editing the opening

here is a video of the changing of hues that we are currently working on

filming

During spring break me and my group members also got the chance to shoot our opening. We got some of Mark's friends to help us out with the process. We were able to get most of the shots easily and we also took some shots that we thought up on the spot that were not on the storyboard which we then added in later during the editing.

We ended up using Mark's garage as the filming location.

This is a picture of the actor who played the killer and me applying the ketchup to the mask to use as fake blood.

props

So Spring Break just ended and we where able to get a lot of our project done within the week that we had off. Today I am going to be showing the props that we used in our opening

This is the speaker that we used during shooting to play the music. We did overlay some parts, but there were also portions of the opening where the speaker was the source of music

This is me adding ketchup to the mask to resemble blood

This is the board, red string, thumbtacks, and mask that we used for the opening.

This is the board after adding some maps to resemble the town that the killer lives in

These are photo cutouts of the victims that the murderer plans to kill

Using the thumbtacks and the string we made a board that the killer would use to organize his murders

 This is the final product after adding credits to the board for us to use during the opening

production logo

Recently me and my team developed a production logo. We plan to put it at the beginning of the film opening and its there to make our opening look more professional and put a title to our group which we decided should be Phoba Films.

We decided to go with the yellow color with a black background

Here is a video of it in action, as you can see there is also some music playing in the background which we plan to use for the first few seconds of the opening

This is some examples of other logos that we were thinking of using.

location scouting

Due to recent complications me and my team have not been able to stay on schedule and we have not started our filming. So as we are getting ready to start the filming process we need to find a good location to shoot our scene. My team members have also been doing some location scouting and found some viable locations, but I thought it would be helpful if I did some scouting as well.

So the first place I though could work would be my room. My room could be good for the dark vibe we want for our killing scene the only issue would be that we would be limited to only shooting at night do to the fact the during the daytime the window in my room would produce too much light. Also my room is a bit small for the scene but i think if we messed around enough we could make it work.

So the first thing that I think would make my room a good idea is that my bed could become the table where the victim wakes up on, (refer to the storyboard post) maybe we could bring a wood panel to make it look more like a table instead of a bed.

The next is there is a desk in my room where we could have the victim search through and find some of the murderers parephenalia like a body part or a bloody knife.





The other location that we could use may be my garage, with some lighting tricks it may be a viable location. The issue with it is that a major part of my garage is full of clutter, but I think if we organize it properly it could work.



There is a table in the garage so that is perfect for the victim waking up scene that I had mentioned before

There is also a workbench in my garage that would work for the parephenalia scene that I had explained before, the only issue is that its surrounded by clutter so getting a good shot may be difficult