Kirsty - AS Media

When developing my second draft to this, I encountered a couple of setbacks. Firstly, my group and I had yet to choose a font suitable to our genre. In a post previous to this, you can see test footage experimenting with fonts and animations of text available on Final Cut Pro. We settled on a 'continuous' animation, and the fonts 'Handwriting - Dakota' and 'Adobe Gothic Std'.

Our more complex problem was adding our logo and production company name. We were placing these two things on a black background, and both use elements of black themselves, if they're not entirely black. Neither had outlines, and as both are images (.jpeg), their lack of animation didn't fit with our motion picture. Initially, my idea was to find an animation of white paint splattering, as this would contrast with the black. However, after discussing the idea with my group and teacher, we decided to drop the logo from our opening sequence and decide on a different font for our production company name (within Final Cut Pro), so that we could animate the text. We found a red and white paint splatter, which may represent innocence (white), being corrupted by danger (red), thus conforming with our theme and genre. 

We filmed Luke's clip and added in his voice over, which we all think adds extra atmosphere and creepiness to our piece. I added audio effects to distort his voice - I made it sound deeper and added an echo - creating a feeling of abnormality, hopefully putting the audience on edge.

I have still yet to colour correct. After talking to Yoli, we've also agreed to add in a sound effect that sounds like a bang, in order to 'scare' character Charlie into dropping her phone.

I made shots in my scene much shorter, and created a jolting effect for clips that were too long but had aspects I wanted to keep in them (by cutting out the middle and keeping either end of the clip). Though I kept one of the shots with 'Hide & Seek' written on the board, this was more for reference in the future in case we want to find a similar typography or look. I added music and cleaned up my other crew members' scenes.

I have yet to add the production roles, production company name and logo, and colour correct. Yoli must also film one more small clip (where it says Charlie and Ant - for antagonist - phone call). 

- Quicker shots

- Lose Hide and Seek on the board

Winn's Scene -

- Add production roles

- Production Company name

- Logo

Lauren's Scene -
- Make certain clips faster

Yoli's Scene -
 - Finish filming scene
 - Make certain clips faster

In General:

- Add music

- Clean up cuts 

- Colour correct