Entry 8:

Noah and I finalize the editing on the last production day in class. It was a lot of work, but in the end we finished much faster than our last film, which was nice.

I think our peers will like how thought-provoking our film is. I wrote our script to be ambiguous, and we certainly kept it that way. I think they'll find it funny (even though it's not exactly supposed to be a comedy) but I think the shifts in tone are good. Additionally, we did spend a lot of time on the sound design/editing (even though it may not be too obvious). Plus, our cinematography during the final scene of the movie is pretty nice, with our medium shots at the lake being really beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. Lastly, there's one transition that took me about an hour to edit. I think they'll find it pretty cool. This movie has the potential to be very entertaining, even though it's not a filmmaking masterpiece.

Could you understand the plot? How do you think the movie ended?

Did the editing add or detract from the final product, and why?

This transition took almost a full hour to figure out how to edit, but I think it turned out okay.

Entry 7: Rant/Ramble

The number of audio tracks in our film wasn't enough to truly create a scary horror movie scene in my opinion. Here, Noah reviews the horror movie scene after I finished editing.

Our film was honestly not what I had envisioned it to be when we began. A lot of these problems can be attributed to our lack of planning. We did so little planning that we pretty much did nothing the first week of worktime. Many of our scenes were filmed later than we intended (even up until the last day) and quickly, as we were running out of time. However, the editing went much smoother than last time, which was nice for me. Anyways, a lot of scenes needed re-shoots that we didn't have time for, so we had to cut important shots. Additionally, there were parts that we didn't realize were unusable until it was too late. While our group worked very well together, we worked a little too well together in that we couldn't focus very well. It was fun as a result of this, though. I kinda wish we had more time and more focus, along with less busy work in all of our other classes going on at the same time (e.g. essays&written tasks). However, realistically, one thing I'd really like to have would be an editing software that could handle more audio tracks at the same time, and included better animations. I think those would truly make our horror movie scenes better.

The check we used for our talk show scene. Originally, I didn't write this into the script, but it's a nice touch.