Typeface Development; Title + Credits

 This is the title and credit ideas as well as the typeface decisions for this project.

Title ideas:

Silent whisper 

Silent stalker

Dark secrets

The haunting shadow

Whispers in the dark

In the shadows

Sinister Lurker

The night's prey

Dark pursuits

Veil of fear

Silent terror

Lurking shadows

Behind the shadows

Typeface ideas:

Thinker (capcut)

Thinker-RG (capcut)

Relax (capcut)

Ravenly (capcut)

Merchande-Rgh (capcut)

Sticky (capcut)

IM FELL (capcut)

 

Production: Organizing Footage

 This is all the raw footage we took at the scene location of our film project. This blog post shows all the device and apps we used to communicate, film or collect data

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19pOWhiKdYLImOo2_XllnvymHZcKMLMGH?usp=sharing

To communicate with the group members :
WhatsApp

To download & store footage :

Google Drive

To edit the footage & organizing the footage within the application :

After Effects 2025

How Does it Help?

- It helped with sharing the files to others so, instead of one person that only has the access to the footage, everyone in our group has the access to the shared file this minimizes more work with exporting through communication apps such as WhatsApp as the app reduces the resolution and quality of the video which ruins the whole immersive aspect of the film opening. In addition to that, our editors used After Effects the latest version which has more features such as the CGI as we have an idea of using CGI although, it may look off that is why we are still figuring out the editing process with the editor to make the audience feel immersive and more realistic and since it is the latest version of the editing software, there may be less glitches or bugs during editing which can ruin the edited footage because technology improves overtime. We also used WhatsApp to show the part where the editor is finished with the video so we can see segments of the video so we can make less mistakes instead of showing the full clip and finding it all in one that way, we also used that app to communicate when and where do we group up and shoot and we talked about other important things within that app.

Post-Production: Editing

Production: Behind-the-Scenes

 The behind the Scenes was originally Kenneth's task, however because we all forgot who's task it was, I decided to take the behind the scenes.

Dominant Reading

 This is the dominant reading for our project. This was made by Shannon.

	List	Our intended  Dominant Reading	How we will achieve this with technical elements
Individuals	Greg, Kenneth, Max	Kenneth = a paranoid  teenager  Greg = Kenneth's good friend, mindful of his surroundings  Max = careless, ignorant teenager	Kenneth  Mise en scene: The actor constantly looks at his surroundings and whatever's around him.  Camera: There is a close up of his concerned expression. There are also medium shots of his concerned body language. The camera pans from Kenneth to what he is looking at.  Editing: Multiple cuts of different camera angles. There is also an eyeline match of kenneth looking to his surroundings  Sound: Diegetic sounds of rustling leaves and footsteps of the stalker.  Greg  Mise en scene: The actor performance contained looking for his friend (kenneth) when he disappeared  Camera: There is a tracking shot of him trying to follow Kenneth's tracks. Medium shots of his body language turning around to find Kenneth.  Editing: Multiple cuts of different camera angles. There is also a reaction shot  of his worried face and Kenneth's “blood”.  Sound: Diegetic sounds of the actor’s dialogue contained words that worried about Kenneth after he disappeared.  Max Mise en scene: The actress carries headphones and has her emotionless expression when the camera focuses on her.  Camera: There are close up shots of her expressions that show that she doesn’t really care.
Social group	Teenagers	Teenagers should not be left alone without adult supervision.	There are multiple camera angles / close up shots of the paranoia of the teenagers. There is a tracking shot scene where Kenneth gets killed. The body language of both Greg and Kenneth are shaky and scared.
Places	Forest	Forests are a bad place to hangout.	There will be low key lighting that’s used to present the place. Many bushes and leaves will be used that hides hidden cameras that makes the scene unsafe for the characters and the audience.  Discordant non diegetic sounds will be used.
Events	Murder	Murder is bad / traumatic.	There is a medium shot of Greg worried for kenneth. There is blood in some scenes and the color red on blood is a semantic code for death, anger, etc.
Overall Message	Teenagers shouldn’t be left alone in the forest because tragedies may happen as a result of murder.

Classwork: Editing Practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post.

Why is continuity editing important? 

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit

- Straight cut (cut)

- Eyeline match

- Shot/reverse shot

- Cutaway/insert

- Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining hte shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic.

My editing process

I used capcut for my editing

The first thing I did was add all the clips together in order of the actions.

Then, I cut off any unnecessary scenes such as the extra footage in the beginning of each clip.

I had way too many cuts, however I was experimenting and was aiming to make this simple boring scene more exciting, which is why it appears more fast-paced.

I made sure that each cuts match each other such as both hands in his pocket and which feet was forward. I made sure that the cuts between the clips match each other. 

Lastly, I edited so that the direction of the clips would be to the right.

Here is my final scene.

Reflection: Editing this is very simple, I had fun editing it. I know not to put too much cuts on scenes that have not much things going on and I will put that information to use in the future. 

Shooting Practice: Horror Scene Recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this as a group

Our teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre to recreate. Our genre is horror, we chose Jennifer's Body (2009)

Storyboard:

Our replica:

Mise en scene 
Problem: We couldn't control the lighting as we were filming outside the classroom. The lighting for a horror movie especially for this one requires mostly low key lighting and since it was sunny today we didn't have access to that. 
Solution: Our teammates Max and Kenneth decided to adjust the video's lighting using the video editing apps to get the same feel as the clip from the movie. 
Next time: We will find a place with artificial lighting so we can easily control the lighting without much help from the video editing app to give it a more natural look instead of artificially increasing something. However, if this is not possible we will use the solution mentioned previously. 

Problem: In the first scene an actress looked at the camera. It's a subtle detail but our goal is so it would match perfectly to the scene we are trying to recreate. 
Solution: Our team tried to edit the video. However they couldn't fully fix that scene so we didn't find the right solution at that time. 
Next time:  we will rehearse and practice many times before we actually film the scenes. If not we can do multiple takes at the time and carefully look at the footage before deciding on another take. However, if all these repercussions fail then we can figure out how to edit it out. 

Sound 
Problem: We didn't have any problems with the sound as we use audio from the original clip which is very clear. 
Next time: I think we will continue doing this and for our upcoming project we will pre record the audio for the dialogue so we can get a clear sound. I also learned it's best not to record audio while we are recording a scene 

Behind-the-scenes: 

Reflection: It took several takes to get a good shot. We had problems remembering the script, actions, and camera angles. However we got the hang of it and got some decent shots.