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The picture above shows the end of our editing process along with our final scene. We decided to display our title in the very last scene to keep the meaning and purpose of the film confidential from the viewers. The way the title was edited also helped create suspense causing the viewer wanting to keep watching. In my previous blog, I explained the audio and visual channels that Miguel added last week. This week, Miguel added yet another audio channel to help blend all of the sounds together to make our audio flow perfectly. A definite problem that will have to be fixed the next time we edit would be the sizing of our film. This was caused by the utilization of many different cameras.

The picture above shows the editing process of our "production company's" name. We then came up with a name (WAMM Productions) then thought about how exactly we would want to present it. After a group discussion, we decided to display the name across the screen at the start of the film where it would be bolded and take up a third of the screen. The picture above displays the audio and video channels that Miguel created using Adobe Premiere Pro. He used one visual channel and three audio channels at the start of the editing process. One of the three audio channels were muted in order to grasp all of the noise and background music being added to the video. We also added visual transitions to ensure a clean flow within our opening film, along with a black screen/space to aware the viewer that there has been a change of setting/ time

The next scenes we filmed were the interrogation scenes. My interrogation was the first scene filmed this week and we struggled again with the lighting because we filmed in a dark classroom. Again, we had one of our group members use a phone flashlight to give some light within the frame. Lighting was extremely difficult because we needed enough light for our actors to be seen, but we also wanted as little as possible so the shot would look more like an interrogation room. After many lighting problems, we decided to switch our location to an isolated room attached to our classroom. This location gave the perfect amount of light we wanted and made the surroundings look as much like an interrogation room as possible.

We began our filming process with the stocking scenes. We decided that these scenes would take place at Miguel's house to help with the natural look of him going about his daily activities. In the pictures above, you can see the window we used to film the victim in a particular scene. Because we shot these scenes at night we had minimal lighting which helped create a mysterious/creepy tone to this film. This particular scene was shot with a handheld video camera. The next scenes we filmed were the kidnapping scenes. The specific scence above was shot with my phone, located in Miguel's trunk, and required many props. Because this shot took place in Miguel's trunk there was not much lighting. We tried to shoot the scene from many different angles, but Miguel's face and the props were not able to be seen. Our solution to this problem was to have Woody use two phone flashlights to provide light for the scene while I filmed and Miguel and maria acted.