Where We Are At Currently

We are approximately 80% done with the editing process! We have assembled our rough cut, which involved figuring out what shots were valuable enough to use, the placing the shots in sequential order. In order to preserve continuity, we prerecorded voicemails and put in text conversations which explains why it went from light to dark so quickly. We inserted the necessary transitions and subtitles, then ended our clip with a dramatic title. Color correction was a simple fix, and now all we have left to do is the sound track and inserting ambient sounds! We saved this part of the editing process for last because sound will have the greatest impact on the feel of our movie. We have already found several soundtracks that we might use in our film, but we still need to figure out what parts of the clips to use and where to put them in.

Difficulties and Revisions

1. Subtitles were tricky at first because black subtitles would not show up in certain shots, so we ended up having red subtitles that were outlined in black so the words were clear in every scene.
2. Because our goal was have the duration of our title sequence not exceed 2 minutes, we ended up shortening most of the shots by 1 or 2 seconds each in order to fit this time. This is harder than we thought it would be considering 1 or 2 seconds can convey a lot of meaning or give viewers necessary information.
3. Finding horror movie sounds with the right vibe also proved to be difficult because while it is a common assumption that all horror movies have relatively the same soundtrack, the individual sounds that make up a soundtrack differ profoundly from one movie to the next.

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