My Contribution

In addition to choosing fonts and the soundtrack, I was the director of the film.

While my partner was the cinematographer and took charge of filming with her iphone, I was in charge of close-up shots due to her hands being to shaky to get a quality shot. I directed the film by deciding what kind of shots would best communicate the tone and message we were trying to send. This included explaining to her what angles and distances would look better and attempting to visualize our original screenplay. For most of the production process she would film a few seconds of Jenna acting out a scene, and I would decide if we needed the same shot from another perspective. My partner recorded all the ambient sounds for the film and decided where to put them. I also chose the font styles for our movie, and spent several days researching various soundtracks which we could overlay and put into our film. After finding several quality videos of suspenseful sounds, I showed them to my partner and we agreed on how to edit them in. While me and my partner had an equal say in all the editing decisions, she was the official editor because she is more accustomed iMovie and has the most knowledge on how to use the tools it makes available. Costuming was something me and my partner decided together, but she was the production designer as well because of her role in figuring out other areas of mise-en-scene, such as blocking, framing and lighting.

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