CCR

 Thank you for coming along on this journey with me. Here is my CCR enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkdTqSycG8c

Final Project!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAEjiANalc

Hope you enjoy!

Final Update!

 Hey guys so I think I have officially finished editing! I have to say this project was quite a journey and this past week was definitely the most stressful for me. I was able to basically finish up editing and me and my partner wanted to meet up to go over anything I should change and let me say when showing her the project and hearing the few critiques I really started to worry and doubt our idea from the start. Together we discussed some of the problems such as lighting changes and some of the clips looking a little off because of the audio adjustments. The main problem that we couldn't seem to fix was this one shot of the main characters screaming since the mystery person just popped up in front of them, the audio of the scream and the previous shot having a different lighting made that part of the sequence look very wonky. I honestly was so stressed trying to fix up that part of the project that I just wanted to bang my head in the door, but after playing around with the clips, I finally found a way to make that part look as cohesive as I possible can by just cutting and overlapping the clips. 

One of the hardest parts for me during the editing process of our project was the audio. I didn't realize how much the video relied on the audio for the piece to come together. Paola recorded some sounds using Foley (the bone crack-celery, running on leaves) and the rest of the sounds and music I got off of YouTube and a website that specialized in classic horror music (of course both being royalty free so I can use them). I used the website epidemicsound to gather the perfect horror classical music to use for both the mood change after the few opening shots and then when the friends are beating up the person. I chose the song, ES_The Storage - Lennon Hutton because there was a good shift in pace during the song that matched up with our clips. Also for just a few sounds like a different bone crack for the ending shot and a different sound of leaves crunching, I used YouTube to search for those sounds and made sure they were royalty free and then used the website YTMP3 to convert those videos into an MP3 audio file that I can then drag and drop into premiere pro.

I wanted to also talk about the font I chose and the color. 

Here are the specific adjustments I made:

I looked at a few examples of fonts that horror movies used (because that's the main genre for our film with integrated comedy aspects) and I saw a lot of them chose the color white to have their font in.

Examples:

So I knew I wanted to use a white font, plus it would contrast at the end against the darkness of the night. The problem was that the font during the beginning credits would be too light to read, since we shot those right at sunset time. Because of this, I decided to add a shadow to my font which helped put a black border against the white font so it can be seen in the lighter shots to. The specific font I used was called Papyrus and this font stuck out to me because it looked like the typical horror font, but not as emphasized and this was perfect since we have a combination of horror and comedy as our genre. 

Throughout this journey of this project I have learned a lot about different editing techniques and it truly made me have a love for editing. Yes, this project took a lot out of me especially at the end but this experience is defiantly one to remember and I will forever be thankful for it. 

All that's left to do is to make the CCR script, which I already started, and then film that and edit it to upload!