How my work progressed

When I was in production of the film I didn't like the lighting so I had to change it but that wasn't the only issue. I noticed that the actor glimpsed at the camera meaning that we had to do a retake.
This gave a clearer effect because there was too much yellow lighting and just by doing this it made the scene less amateur like.

Throughout the opening for approx 2 minutes i decided to have music playing but only to give the impression that the sound is really coming through the earphones.

In the original layout i was going to have the title sequence at the start but as i progressed i realised that it didn't flow as well as i wanted it to so i changed from the start to the middle of the opening.

 Over all i can see that the opening now looks much better with the few minor changes and the duration of the cuts are well balanced making for a smooth transition.

This is what the first company logo looked like. I kept on looking back at it and thought that it looked quite bland and boring so I changed the fractal noise to something more horror like.

This is the outcome of the changes I did to the original one making for a better looking title sequence.

The second title sequence is the better out of the two of them. I didn't make any changes to it as I was happy with outcome. 

I'm using audition to mix some sounds together from my own voice to give an ominous effect. I am going to use echo a lot to make the effect stand out and sound better.

 When I was editing I noticed that I didn't have enough clip for a shot so I had to improvise and reverse a clip to make it work. The way it looks works because it doesn't look like it's been changed which it great making so that I don't have redo a clip.

These two show the colour difference between the middle of the first scene to the end of it. The colour goes down as the opening progresses as what he is in is a dream however he doesn't know this and nor does the audience so by changing the colour people might be able to pick up that something is off and get the idea that none of this is real or normal. All of the settings go lower every time the "Monster" appears for a reason I am not going to give as it leaves the "thing" with more a mysterious appearance. I think I will reduce the amount of times I change the colours because it doesn't go well

Both of these shots are the same clip but I wanted to make the text more interesting so I made it so that the text dissipates when the shadow comes across it almost like it's dragging it along.

When i was making the audio for the "monster" I wanted to make it seem unnatural and out of this world so I decided to change the pitch to give it a deeper voice an make the sound, sound unsettling and hard on the ears because the thing is still going to be left a mystery and the only one who can understand it is main protagonist.

I changed company logo 2 once again because I didn't like how the text bounced everywhere so I changed it to a static text with 'productions' at the bottom due to confusion of people thinking that, that was the movie title. The change is little but i think overall it will make the turn out better.

When I was doing the credits I thought I would use he path to my advantage who I decided to make the text almost walk the other side of his but I came to the conclusion that it didn't look very professional so like the first text I made it fade in and fade out as it's simple yet effective.

There was a change in colour in one part of the clips that i didn't like as it stars with a strong colour which looks horrible so now it's changed to one colour.

Due to how loud some of the sound is I had to change the dB a little bit. Some sound still over power other sounds but they are on purpose so they won't be changed.

When I was editing I got a bit carried away and went a bit over the maximum mark meaning that I had to shorten it a bit from 2:26 to now 2:12 I think the changes aren't affecting the opening much in fact i think that it looks a lot better now.


When i looked back at the exported film there was something missing from the end as it had no audio other than breathing which i found quite boring to conclude the opening so I added a bit of dialogue for the monster to leave the opening on a bit of a cliff hanger.

Going back over the exported film openings I started to become nit picky and have seen how the colours in the opening aren't the same as each other so not only did i change them at the start I notice that I could reduce the amount of grain if I change the colours a bit so now it look clearer.

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To help me with this change I have been asking people for feedback on how I could improve or change the opening to make it look better and some people have given me so great advice (this will be in a different post).

When I was listening closely to the sound I didn't think that the music in the first half and the rustle of the trees where on par with one another in terms of dB making it off putting in the ears.

I did a back to back comparison on both of the exported openings I did to see which on I'm going to finalize and in my opinion I'm going to use the newest on because with the colour change in place it look better and the sounds are much better as well because I added a few more with a few more changes to them.

This is the Film opening finished however, I am going to make a few changes to it because I have noticed that in one scene the chair is still then Ben is shaking in it then it's still again so it doesn't flow very well which people have noticed making it an issue I need to consider. 

During the making of the title my idea was to make it seem creepy and different to what the films was really about. The ice represents cold isolation and the dark colours show the emotions of the protagonist. The lines that are shown are to point you to look at the hidden face in the ice behind the logo making the view feel uncomfortable having something watching them.

I changed the duration of the Dream title sequence as I though that it was too long and it dragged o the run time leaving em with little time left. The reason why it was long was because the original had sound include to give it a horror vibe to it however, it was not needed. Since i made the run time of the title shorter I was able to add different sound to make the whole sequence flow.