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We have now finished the second cut and I have learned so much throughout this process. In the first cut I ended up finishing editing it and I thought as usual everything was good and my editing didn't need any changes. I meet with my group to review it and see what we might want to change thinking everything was fairly good. I end up finding out that there was a ton of suggestions I was given to fix the editing side of the film. I was told to fix the sound, add captions, and delete some scenes that made the film confusing. For the most part though, I feel as though the editing was really good on the first cut although now that I have watched the second cut back, in the editing software it didn't seem to be the case, but as I am watching it back I now realize I need to correct the colors because it seems like they're over exposed. Also, sometimes the audio was cutting out or was unnecessary, so I tried to fill in the gaps and cut out the unnecessary white noise. Another thing I might add in the final cut is music; I feel like those are the things this film is missing and so far I have learned so much throughout this process.

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Independent distribution and marketing plan -- Conflicted

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Independent distribution and marketing plan -- Conflicted

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1) We would directly go to distributors and not use sales agents to make it less complicated. The distributors we would go after would be Indieflix, mubi and kanopy. These are all great and regularly work with independent film makers, also the types of services that they work with is perfect for our genre and type of film. The film festivals we'd attend would be the American Film Market because they are good for getting smaller drama films to find distributors.
2) The title of our film is Conflicted and we think this matches our film perfectly because that's exactly how the main character feels. Throughout the film, the main character doesn't know how to feel about the messages her boyfriend is sending her. She thinks to herself how to respond and is clearly anxious about the whole situation. She thinks he might break up with her and this is why we think that the title conflicted is perfect.
3) May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.
4) Our target audience is teenage girls because they'd obviously relate to this film the most. Some issues that may present themselves is that this audience doesn't particularly have a lot of money. They might have their parents money though so we wouldn't have to worry about them paying to see the film. They might follow beauty celebrities online so if we had a higher budget we might be able to pay some influencers to promote our film on their pages. They would be easy to convince to see the movie because teenage girls go to the movies very often.
5) We could use influencers to promote our film on things like instagram and other social medias and then if we had to last resort we'd post it on youtube to self distribute. We'd promote at places like maybe malls or beauty stores.
6) We might run a promotion with one of the beauty stores we promote at and make it so when someone makes a purchase, they get a QR code or something and when they scan it they get a discount on their next purchase if they purchase movie tickets through the link or watch the movie through the link.
7) The artwork for the film is very important and can help decide how the film is perceived and what people will think the film is about. For example if the cover art for the film has flames and cars and intense colors, people will think its a fast paced action film. We would probably use duller colors and less colors. Our film included a lot of white so we could stick to that theme which would make the main character pop and be the center of the art. .

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As the editor, analyzing the films and seeing what other similar successful films in the same genre do that attribute to the mood and plot of the film. For example, in most of the films, the openings had montages and a similar pace. I could use this in my film if not with a montage then in pacing because most of the films emotional value comes from this and it is very critical to the film. I plan on starting out with a slow sadder tone and then slowly have the film's pace speed up and have faster cuts and music. My film doesn't plan on using a montage although the pace of film can definitely develop the way I need it to. This film will mainly use dissolves and straight cuts although it might have some other variation such as fades. We'll use these because these kinds of transition could help with a slower pace of the film. Our company logo would slowly fade in and out and zoom in slowly with a picture and the studio name under it. We'll try to use duller colors and not too many colors to not over complicate the logo. For the studio name font, we'll use either a cursive font or something more simple in white letters. As far as sound, our film has many parts where we hear the main characters thoughts so it'll be fairly quiet other than the voice over. Some sound effects we'll need might be a phone buzzing and doors opening or foot steps. Most of these we would easily be able to get online such as the phone buzzing and the footsteps and doors opening we could get in person. We might use a quieter calmer tune to play in the background throughout the first minute or so of the film. This might be sadder although not particularly tragic. I'm not too sure what song we'll use yet although it will definitely not be copyrighted.

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Silver Lining
1. The first two minutes of the film are slow and has sad music that slowly rises and gets louder and more present in the background. Then the movie turns into a montage trying to give us context of the tone and situation of this film with him going to therapy and working out.
2. The genre is a romantic drama and the target audience is younger adults that are now entering the "real world".
3. At the very beginning, the logo fades in slowly and it has darker colors to go with the darker tone of the movie. Also the slow fade aligns with the pacing of the rest of the movie.
4. Logo, credits, silhouette close up zoom in, long shot, close up, spin around, long shot, close up, over the shoulder, close up, wide shot, medium shot, pan right, tilt up spin around, close up
5. Sad music fades in, voice over, non-diegetic, music starts again, diegetic sound
6. By the end of the two minutes I was left confused and I wondered what was happening, I wanted the rest of the story.
7. The shots tend to change throughout, at first there were longer slower paced shots, and as it progressed there was a cut every couple seconds. The only editing style I noticed was a montage, maybe an L cut and match cuts.
8. They had a title sequence, sad music, a low tone, a mysterious topic.
9. They changed the pace up very quickly and usually a montage or quick cuts aren't the best way to get the idea across of what's happening in a sadder drama movie.
10. It could've represented people that go to group therapy or people that workout or people that take anti-depressants.
11. I think that it was distributed on Hulu, Redbox, Roku and prime video because these are all easily accessible for younger people

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In November and December, we studied sound and editing. We watched many films and analyzed their use of sound and how it affected how the viewer felt, and same thing for editing. We studied 20 or more types of editing techniques like many transitions and how to use sound to transition into other scenes. We also watched a documentary called "Cutting Edge" which is an editing documentary that reviews all the transitions and everything we learned and the history of them. Similarly, we watched a sound documentary called "Making waves" to learn how to use sound to your advantage in film. Also we learned to write scripts and we read the script for "The Incredibles", which helped us learn to write a script for our 2 minute horror film based around someone having a nightmare.

This film had many requirements we had to meet. Some of those requirements are it has to be one to two minutes; horror or horror hybrid; an "opening" rather than a finished film product. Also it has to have not too much dialogue (mostly music, sound effects/ambience); no wall-to-wall music; no long takes; start in black with company ident and/or logo and title and we could add credits before straight cut or dissolve to first image if we wanted to. It also needed minimum of three crosscuts between actor and nightmare. Most importantly it needed to be edited/shot/uploaded by student; accompanying blog post.

The film must also include one  close up; one dutch angle, one high or low angle one one silhouette, one pan or tilt or track/push or spinaround, one zoom or dolly zoo,  one subliminal cut or multitake or smash cut, one match cut, one  J cut or L cut, one use of slow or fast motion; one intentional use of color for story/emotion, one instance of intentional use of costume/hair/makeup, one instance of visual complexity in setting choice (color, texture, depth, lines, shapes, etc.); three sound effects, one piece of incidental music or one sound motif repeated three times.

Some codes and conventions I adhered to was having a flashback, weird angles, suspenseful moments, violence, scary music, quick jump cuts sound effects, and I kept the audience guessing the whole time not knowing what might come next. Some ways I broke horror movie conventions would be I didn't have any jump scares, the lighting wasn't particularly lowkey most of the time, the colors were debatably bright the whole time, it had no young children, the characters didn't have any odd backstories either, and because the lighting/colors weren't very dark, it didn't make the audience feel like scared or as if they were in a creepy environment. I represented animals/goats as scary or dangerous as they were to the main character. I also represented gamers as having a bad temper when they lose.

I was successful in my use of POV shots as when I couldn't immerse the viewer well enough with a third person shot, the use of a POV shot helped the viewer feel as if the story was real. Also when I couldn't actually have the goat chase the character, a POV shot was a good replacement. I think the way I ended the film was a good ending and wrapped the whole thing together. I was less successful in making the environment scary as i filmed during the day and I couldn't isolate light enough to make the dream scary. If I could change the scene in the field, I would change the colors to make it a darker, red ambience that way it felt off. Also the editing and use of sound effects felt forced because the 3 sound effect requirement was hard to fit into this film. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit this film, I used Arc Studios to create the script, I used an IPhone 11 back camera to record, and I used Photoshop to create the logo. I learned many things while filming this and how when creating a film there are so many factors to account for from continuity to how you can use color to change the way the audience feels. If I could go back and make this film more professional, I'd make it longer, I'd make the colors darker, I'd get the goat to actually chase him, I'd have a better crosscut and lastly I'd find a more fitting piece of music for this film.

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We studied the conventions, codes, and audience expectations of the following 24 genres: action, adventure, animation ,B movies, biopics, comedy, crime, documentaries, drama, fantasy, family, historical, horror, independent films (indies), musicals, mysteries, romance, science fiction (scifi), sports, superhero, thrillers, war, Westerns, young adult (YA). Each of the genres have their own special kinds of characters that are usually in the story whether that be for example, young adult the main character is usually a teen and B movie the antagonist is usually a creature/monster. Also we learned what genres require more editing than others such as animation would obviously require a lot more CGI/animated things than an adventure movie. Also for audience expectations, each genre has the audience awaiting something for example, horror the audience wants to feel a thrill like they're being hunted or something exciting and comedy the audience expects to laugh.

Our other 2 films would be considered Drama, young adult and maybe indie. I'd say we mostly conformed with the drama genre most with our characters over reacting over anything and making things more interesting with how they deal with conflicts. Also, I consider them to be young adult because these characters experience issues that most young adults also face such as bullying which is a relatable issue. I'd say we broke the code of a drama because there wasn't enough talking and too much fighting. They didn't settle disputes how most dramas do through words or some agreement, and just fought instead.

My favorite genre is crime.

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The assignment was to take someone else's film idea, and remake it better than before. The first film was about a kid trying to buy something from a vending machine when someone starts pushing him and his friend protects him and loses. Then the kid getting bullied fights the original bully and wins. We added a training scene which we think was a great addition. Since the first film, we have learned many film terms and techniques to giving the viewer a certain feeling. For example, a high angle can make a character seem unimportant or weak. Also we had to include 10 different types of shots. As before, I played the role of the cameraman and editor.
3 of the shots that we did were a low angle, a pan shot, and a spin around. In one of the first few scenes when the bully is slo-mo walking in from a low angle to make him seem big and tough. Also we did better than before with cutting shots together and making them make sense, although it still needs work. One of our biggest improvements was audio.

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This was my first short film with no experience filming anything and I learned from it. I was the camera man and I acted a little. The film was about a kid being bullied on his first day of school and the bully getting expelled. We didn't have much time to film. We got 50 minutes to film and come up with the whole thing and the next day I spent 30 minutes editing. I regret that as I could've spent more time editing and adding captions as it would've greatly helped with all the sound issues.

We watched the film 3 times, twice with sound, once without sound. When we watched it with no sound. when we watch it with no sound, I learned the most. The sound on the video on certain parts is bad and disrupted. The captions were inconsistent. Some of the shots didn't transition well. Overall the film was fine for our first film and we did good on camera work, acting, and storyline.

My favorite genre is mystery because of its interesting nature and how many ways you can go with it. For example I could do a film on someone committing a crime and everyone trying to find out who among the group did the crime. It would include a red-harring, close calls, and lighting to go with the mood which would usually be lowkey and 3-5 characters that could be potential suspects of the crime.