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Evaluating My Peers' Reviews

Hi! This week I'm evaluating the reviews of my group's opening scene. 1. From Mahathi Peer Review   " In this clip, I liked various technical elements. Firstly, we have insert, crane shots, voice overs, and more. In the beginning of the clip, we see an insert of the flickering lights. This grabs the audience attention to let us know that it is sort of eerie or creepy vibes. The background music adds on to the suspense of the clip. I furthermore liked the straight cut on the actress constantly scratching her finger, to her legs shaking. This lets us know that the actress is nervous and potentially has anxiety. One thing I disliked is the use of type of lighting used. What would be better is if used more of low-key lighting. This would add onto the suspense. Furthermore, the types of characters used, a therapist and someone who is not mentally okay. The low-key lighting would give the audience some sort of creepy vibes. I also did not like the type of cut used when the actre...
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Peer Reviewing Classmates' First Cuts!

 Hi! This week, I watched and reviewed, as well as provided some critique to my classmates' first cuts of their opening scenes. Here are my reviews: 1. [Unamed] https://youtu.be/pwUBkwR0Ths?si=epNScnoTh1T5WhDa What specific technical elements of the film opening did you like? I thought the camera shots, specifically the closeups of the protagonist's hands and piano, as well as the tracking shots of him walking add a intense feeling to the scenes. I also particularily enjoyed the reverse zoom at 0:44. This technical element was a nice way to fully introduce what the protagonist looked like. Overall, the shot types were well thought out and positively add on to the opening scene. What specific technical elements of the film opening did you dislike? I wasn't a fan of using the plain black screens as a transition in betwen scenes, like at 0:17. They felt random and left me wishing for something more intruiging to look at rather than a pitch black screen. Especially since the ab...
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Our First Cut

Hello!  I'm super excited to share the first cut of our opening scene! It's called " Mind The Gaps. " Here is the link: https://youtu.be/CEkDC6U4KYU?si=Fwnqw_W1tA_CESQI
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Editing Our Opening Scene #2

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Hey everybody! This week we continued editing. We established a lot more this week in terms of fonts, titles, placements, effects, and transitions. Editing went more or less smoothly this week since we had solved the problems we encountered last week, allowing for a more cohesive editing session. Alexander and I worked together for about 2-3 hours on Monday and we accomplished a lot. We decided to use the font, "Monserrat-Light" because it's thin and simplistic. This adds a sense of neatness to the film and doesn't take away from the therapy clinic setting. Here is a photo of choosing the font title. As for colors, depending on the background we may use yellow because it ties into our film, red, or dark blue because they're all striking and noticeable colors.  For video effects, there will be several utilized including blurs to indicate a soft focus, and a glitch effect to portray the protagonist's unreliability.  For audio effects, we will have to input a lot...
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Editing Our Opening Scene

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Hi again! This week my group started the editing process of our opening scene!    Here are some photos of Alexander editing on his laptop at home.   Alexander is the only one who has been involved in editing so far as we haven’t been able to complete much progress on it. We do, however, have plans to meet up next week t o discuss and assist each other in the editing process.   Here is a photo of his laptop screen while editing.   Some issues he’s faced with editing so far have been confusion with what order the clips go in, which clip is which, and finding a good editing software. We filmed the clips in a different order than where they go chronologically in the film to make the most use of time and facilitate the production process. However, due to this, Alexander had to review the script we wrote to ensure he placed the clips in the right order. He was also confused about which clip was which, so he watched each one and manually changed the file nam...
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My Filming Process

Hello everybody! My group and I were super excited to start filming our opening scene. Since we were filming at my house, o ur first step was to move my dining room table so we could use the plainly decorated background for the scenes involving Johansen and me. We grabbed some simple decorations inside my home like a side table and potted plant to add to our background. We did our best to mak e my house seem like a professional atmosphere, that of a therapy clinic.   Here is a photograph of Jamil recording a scene between our characters, the therapist and the patient.    We filmed the majority of these scenes between Johansen and I , one day after I created the script a nd shared it with the group.   Here is a photograph of us going over the script and stage directions . (Featuring my little chihuahua, Timmy, at our feet) Our main cameraman , Jamil, was also present during this to ensure he knew what kinds of shots and movements we wanted for each scene. There...
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