Changes from the Film Review

 The first thing I needed to correct from the suggestions we got was the lighting. I was in charge of the first half of the video, and Britanique took the second half. Her half didn't require a lighting change because it was supposed to be set in the morning, so bright light was needed. So, the responsibility of making the movie fit its horror convention of dark lighting was on me. I had to edit each scene with a different setting because they all had different lighting because of the angles. This process wasn't complex, but it took me an extended amount of time to change things clip by clip. The options I had to edit included exposure, brightness, vignette, filter strength, etc. I spent several hours doing the lighting. As I went through each clip, I cropped the length of scenes I felt were too long. This helped to blend the shots together. Some of the scenes we had taken were also longer than expected. However, I still had to cut them down to the time allotted. Otherwise, we will have gone over the time constraint.

 Eden filmed the clips I was working on. She isn't our typical filmer, so the videos' stability was not the best. Luckily the editing tool we use has a mode to stabilize the camera post-production. I stabilized as needed while going through the clips doing the lighting. My goal was to make each look like I had envisioned before moving on to the next. I think this actually helped me in the long run because I didn't have to go back. These issues were our main concern from the review. All of the work probably took me 5 hours to edit about a 50-second clip on lighting and stability. The rest of the problems will be addressed later on in editing. 



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