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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQF-k1kYpQQ&feature=youtu.be  We elected to keep the portion of film the same, as the majority of our peer reviews concluded that the introduction did not need any changing. The only change that was suggested was to make the introduction more specific. However, my team decided that the mystery behind the introduction completed the feel that we wanted to establish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQF-k1kYpQQ&feature=youtu.be 

This week we edited the last three videos we have filmed in an attempt to create the scene we have collectively envisioned. We are not all entirely content with the finished product, as the group believes more filming may be required to create a more polished scene. No major changes are going to be made as of right now, but we are not entirely sure if the scene will alter a great deal in the future, as we are content with our idea just not entirely with the scenes we edited. The last three scenes were edited a little more heavily than the first scene, as we believe it was necessary in order to keep the audience engaged. However, because each person took a turn with the responsibility of editing, we are beginning to wonder if the last three videos are overedited. There were no real editing issues with the last few videos as we all practiced editing on the first video, thus there were no real barriers to slow our progress. Editing for these videos took approximately three periods.

My group and I have designated this to be the introduction of our introduction scene. We decided that out of all scenes this would be the best to grab the attention of audience. Our editing on this scene will most likely be very simple as the scene is meant to speak for itself. We ultimately decided that suspenseful music and a simple fading transition would be best as to not overedit the scene, as we believe that would defeat the purpose. The only real trouble we encountered was inserting the transition as we had never inserted the transition that we were using before. The music was fairly easy to edit in as we had edited in music or a voiceover of some sort in a previous assignment. The editing for this scene took about a period and a half (around an hour) as there was a lot of playing around with the system before finally figuring out what we thought was going to be the finished product. Editing was done by Kaelyn, Whitney, and myself collectively, as we all wanted to learn how to...

This video is yet another example of my group members and I determining who to designate as the actors for our presentation and whether the scenes that we picked are good enough to include in our overall introduction scene. My group members and I are glad we used these short excerpts as practice to determine what errors we would make because we discerned that using family members is not necessarily the best method for picking actors. After taking this into account my group and I have discerned that we may need to change the actors for our presentati on.

The video above is just a brief excerpt from a draft shoot that my group and I held throughout the week. This was meant mainly for the actors to get comfortable with the camera and their roles in the opening scene. We also used the draft film to determine if the props and people/actors we mentioned in last week's post were actually going to work when trying to create something presentable for Cambridge. We are glad we practiced our opening scene to determine any issues with the film. One issue that stood out to me was the fact that a real cleaver was used to film the portion of, which could result in a safety hazard.