This is a short video that focuses on transitions as well as containing a montage of photos, and using compositing effects to make transitions smoother.

https://youtu.be/bP2OKp5bzOs 

This is my FINAL CUT of the 1-minute-film group project “CLASS CLOWN”.

Here are a list of the changes I made from the draft to the final cut:

• Clown music (sourced from the actual windup-doll used in video) is used three times as a repeated motif. First it is the alarm sound that wakes up our protagonist. Then it is briefly stitched once she kicks the doll on the floor to imply some sort of a connection. Finally it’s used as the end for the last alarm, mirroring the start and emphasizing the “loop”.
• When the clown strikes her down, we cut to black on impact rather than after impact. This was feedback given in-class, and it makes it more realistic as its a pov-shot.
• Removed the 6:66 phone reveal at the end and the red hues. Instead we use the repeated alarm music, and have the jump-scare sfx occur once the camera pans to the clown rather than when the alarm goes off. This effectively moves the jumps-care to be on the clown’s reveal rather than a random 6:66 phone.

This is the first “rough cut” of my final ready to share for class, though I think its pretty close to final already besides some more editing polish & feedback!

Due to scheduling conflicts and also recovering from a surgery I was unable to film all the footage I needed. So here’s the first two(ish) minutes that I mostly have footage for

For my final project I decided to create a roughly 2 minute short skit, focusing on continuity as well as post-production effects involving sound. The reason I chose this was because earlier in this semester I recorded a similar skit which involved 2 characters, but I had the same person play both characters. I wanted to do this again because having 1 person play 2 parts surprisingly forced me to really focus on continuity and framing to make it seem as though both people existed in the same timeframe. Even though it was challenging, I found it to be a lot of fun and made me get pretty creative when filming and editing.

Regarding the actual video, I have written a simple script of two friends joking with one another, until one overreacts and creates a outrageously unrealistic conflict involving supernatural abilities. I mainly created this storyline so I could mess around with sound effects and music a lot, but it ended up having a rather funny tone in some moments. For filming I ended up using a nearby trail, and just had my actor (my sister) use 2 different outfits to play 2 different characters. I also had her do a different voice for each character so things didn’t get too confusing and you could tell they are supposed to be 2 separate people. Before filming I also ended up creating a checklist of scenes that were necessary to film, a method we discussed in class briefly, and it was very helpful to make sure I had enough footage to create my storyline properly.

(The final version is basically the same as the draft since I wasn’t sure what else to change and edit.)

I removed the extra 40ish seconds from the end!