The Ritual 

Interstellar

Nun 2

This PowerPoint consists of 3 detailed analysis and why we have chosen these films to study.

There is a main character named Sarah. Sarah is an ordinary high school girl, but she has always had one fear... mirrors. Sarah always feels like mirrors are watching her, but she can not explain why. One day, Sarah’s grandmother passes down an old mirror. The mirror is beautiful, but Sarah obtains a gut feeling that there's something wrong with it.

At first, Sarah was uneasy about the idea of hanging the mirror up, simply because she is afraid of them. Eventually, Sarah hangs the mirror in her bedroom because her  grandmother told her too. At first, every think seems normal, But soon, she starts to have strange experiences. She sees shadows and movements move out of the corner of her eye. She also hears whispers that come from the mirror.

Sarah becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated. She starts to avoid her friend and family, and she spends more and more time alone in her room, staring at the mirror. The mirror keeps Sarah up at night. Sarah’s hygiene begins to decline as she can only focus on he fears from the mirror.

One night, Sarah is sitting in front of the mirror when she sees a reflection of herself that she doesn't recognize. The reflection is older and more sinister, and it seems to be taunting her.

Sarah is terrified, and she tries to smash the mirror. But the mirror is indestructible. Everything she does to the mirror has no effect.

Sarah realizes that she is trapped in a cycle of fear and paranoia. She knows that she has to do something to break the cycle, but she doesn't know what. Sarah needs to make sure that nobody experiences the terrors from this mirror again.

Sarah decides to confront her fears and learn more about the mirror. She starts to research its history, and she discovers that the mirror is cursed. After consulting with her grandmother, he grandmother picked up the mirror at a yard sale 50 years ago. The Grandmother had no space for it, but thought it was beautiful, so she bought it and stored it in the attic. Legend has it that the mirror reflects the darkest fears of the person who looks into it. Sarah will later get in contact with the members of the past family who held the garage sale to discuss the history of this mirror (who are still alive).

Sarah also discovers that the mirror has a long history of driving people to madness. She finds out the history of the previous owners and finds out that the former owners son killed himself after he couldn’t handle the hauntings of the mirror.  She knows that she has to get rid of the mirror.

Sarah tries to give the mirror away, but no one will take it. She tries to destroy it, but it's indestructible.

Sarah is starting to lose hope. She feels like she's going crazy.

One night, Sarah is having a particularly bad episode. She's sitting in front of the mirror, and she's seeing all of her worst fears reflected back at her.

Sarah can't take it anymore. She grabs the mirror and runs outside. She finds a nearby cliff, (maybe the beach or somewhere else since it is Florida) and she throws the mirror over the edge. Sarah watches as the mirror falls to the ground and shatters. She feels a wave of relief wash over her. Sarah walks away from the cliff, and she takes a deep breath. She looks up at the stars, and she feels a sense of peace that she hasn't felt in a long time. Sarah knows that she will never forget her experience with the mirror, but she is also determined to move on. She is ready to start a new chapter in her life.

I believe this story falls under or research of a psychological thriller. I think we accomplish this as we will explore the themes of fear, paranoia, and the power of the mind. The film also examines the nature of evil and the possibility of redemption. This film also dives into psychological challenges and introduces cat and mouse games.

After careful consideration, my group and I decided to change a whole premise of our story. We originally wanted to include the element of time travel, but decided it would become too intricate for us to pull off. With time travel removed, we decided to base the story off more trauma.

Preparing for this date, I pitched to Sebi that we change our main to characters to females. What originally was Max and Thomas is now turning to two sisters who we are yet to decide the names of. I felt this change was necessary as it challenges ordinary convention and trends, but also shines a light to this female role that is often underrepresented.

The script idea we liked the most was when a character that is mentally ill, suffers from trauma by an abusive father.

One night, a young girl is ignored by her older sister's friends, sent away, and goes missing. The girl hears her noise and investigates for herself, but the sound comes from a mirror on the second floor, and as she stares into the mirror, the lights begin to flicker and a dark figure appears in the corner of the room. The music, sound effects, and flashing increase as the figure approaches. The screen will go black. A week and a half later, police notified the missing girl's father that the search had been discontinued. Her father (Michael Stiller) is furious and starts fighting the police to expand the search, but that doesn't happen. Brenda Stiller (the main character) is the girl who lives in the house where the disappearance happened, and whose younger sister disappeared.

Brenda Stiller is blamed for the disappearance of Macy Stiller (Little Missing Sister), which becomes clear when her dark figure is revealed to be haunting her. It appears on street corners, street lights, and behind her house. Her entire friend group thinks she's crazy. Brenda becomes estranged from her friends and her hygiene begins to deteriorate. Her one sequence in the trailer shows her morning routine: When Brenda gets out of bed, her room is messier than usual, she goes into the bathroom, she turns on the light and looks in the mirror I look at myself. She continued to watch as her blackened hand slowly reached over her shoulder (she seems immune to these encounters, as she is already traumatized).

As Brenda looks into the camera, she begins to take a shower and a black hand reaches for her shoulder again. She sits at the empty family table for breakfast. She then brushes her teeth and the kidnapper is standing in the mirror directly behind her left shoulder, causing Brenda to turn around in surprise (jump scare). She begins collecting materials such as carpets, blankets, and plastic bags. As soon as she enters the living room, she casts a deadly look in the direction of the camera. Brenda begins to remember when her kidnapper reached out and touched her shoulder during her morning routine. He begins to connect the dots in her mind, realizing with a deadly glance that her dark figure is an interpretation of her traumatized, abusive father. The way that person grabs his shoulder, her father grabs her shoulder to turn her around and yell at her. The dining room table was empty - her father was sitting at the dining room table, hitting and screaming. The character is showering with her – her father is probably showering with her too.

In addition to his, we also talked about all meeting up together during winter break, so we can try and find some scouting locations. While we are together during break, we will also be figuring out our selection of actors in more depth. Sebi claims that he has some ideas on who to cast, but we will make sure to get on the same page, and hold some auditions.

Having enthusiastic, skilled, and hard working cast is paramount to the final product of the trailer. I am not saying we need Hollywood level talent, but it will be imperative to have half-decent actors.

To help ensure our actors are giving us their full efforts, in our discussion we talked about possible food choices we will be providing. We were thinking something like chick-fila, but we will ultimately come to a decision based on our casts' consensus and likings.

We finished off our conversation talking about availability for filming. We will be printing out a calendar for each member of the team (including cast and producers) and will have them highlight the days that they are free. Once we have these highlighted days, we hope to piece them all together and create a schedule where everyone can be on the same page.

I am excited, and eager to be working in these roles with my team. I think that I have a great prowess in seeing visions others may be obfuscated of. I believe my creativity will flourish under this role. I also think I best suit my roles in my team. Since I am the only one in the group with a car that can drive, I will be able to scout out locations to Sebi's specifics that Sebi and Alex may be unavailable to find.

Next, it was time to write my second postmodern essay. Originally, I watched an episode of "Family Guy", and started writing about it, but I soon realized I couldn't do another TV show. After talking with my peers, I heard that most of them were all going to write about videogames, so it was time for me to figure out which videogame I would select. My initial thought was to choose fortnite as the game I would write about, but I concluded that it did not show as much postmodernism as I wanted to. It was hard to choice my game as I am not an active gamer, but then something clicked. I noticed one of my favorite games to play explicitly demonstrates apparent postmodern features; The game was Madden. It was easy to start, since I already had my first essay complete as a guideline I could look back on.

Overall, I thought this was a very helpful assignment. I learned so much from my research during this essay, while having lots of fun on the way.

For our trailer, we are willing to have a decent sized budget, in order to get all the supplies and props we need, as well as food for everyone involved in the process. With that being said, we would like to save all the money we can and avoid unnecessary expenses. That is why we would like the use a cheaper store as a resource.

I will make a blog post later once we have our cast all put together, so we can go further in depth on this coordination.

As I talked with Alex and Sebi, we came up with a consensus that we do not want to spend over $300 in total. This money will be used for props, accommodations and food for actors.

Initially for our set, we talked about booking and Air BNB. Booking an Air BNB would allow us to have a nice 2 story how that could fit our needs and Sebi, our director, could select a home that explicitly adheres to his visions.

After a further break down with my peers, we all decided that it would be best to not partake in a Air BNB and that we should try and find a friends house to use. Avoiding an Air BNB fee would supply us with much more money for food and props.

As of right now, we do not have a confirmed house to film as the Crawfords, but in a worse case scenario, we will change our script and film at Sebi's house. Sebi only has a 1 story house, but if we change our script, we'll be fine.

Alex's role will kind of be the middle man. Alex with serve as a voice of advise and supervision, who could help give us each input along the way. Alex is very bright and often has great feedback for us.

Going into this trailer, I intend on watching many conventional horror trailers, to try and give me a good rough idea of the product I'm working to achieve.

I intended to follow standard conventions when crafting the horror script. In order to build tension, ensure that our trailer had a plot, and alert viewers to a recurring dilemma in the movie, I made sure to include a dialogue between the therapist and Tammy in the script. Rather than have a character say it out loud, I told the viewers Brenda is missing by using the shot of the missing poster. In the media, it is crucial to remember that it is usually preferred to physically show the audience something rather than just tell them. I added a narration and title cards to assist build suspense and to further aid the audience with the storyline.

Before I constructed this horror script, I did some extensive research to help influence what decisions I made. I personally used the When Evil Lurks trailer format to construct my script.  I like how this trailer was very conventional, containing jump scares and leading to no definite answers. The trailer also included lots of very conventional quick cuts to help create suspense, and to intrigue the viewer.  In the When Evil Lurks trailer we never end up seeing what the actual spirit looks like, tension is risen throughout the trailer with characters mentioning it and interacting with it without the audience seeing it. In my trailer I have a slower opening scene like in the example trailer. The When Evil Lurks trailer centers around an idea and the storyline of the plot for the whole duration but never gets to the point, leaving audiences wondering what is going to happen. I initially was confused with this trailer, but when I read more about the movie and viewed it again, it all made sense. I tried to lay out my trailer in a way that it made sense if you knew the story, and still had a storyline that didn’t give the whole thing away. Overall, I thought this trailer gave me a great impression and tactics to make a horror trailer.

Another trailer that heavily influenced the creation for my trailer script was Imaginary (2024). This movie centralizes over the fact that when and woman named Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice  develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. While this central gist of the movie is not similar to ours, there were many features that I like from in that I was happy to incorporate into my trailer script. For example, this trailer showcases Alice’s sinister drawings, and I kind of did something similar showing Tammy’s eerie sketches of the abductor. This trailer also showcases Alice being questioned on camera about losing her mind and I incorporated a similar concept with Tammy getting interrogated by her therapist. 

While writing the horror script, I wanted to adhere to general conventions. In the trailer I wrote, I made sure to include a conversation with the therapist to create an un easy tension and made sure there was some type of storyline to our trailer, and to inform our audience of an on going quandary in the film. I used the shot of the missing poster as a way to tell the audience Brenda is missing rather than to have a character directly say it. In media, it is paramount that whenever you can visibly show the audience something rather than physically say it, it is generally preferred. I used title cards, along with a voiceover to help create suspense, and to further help the audience with a storyline. I meticulously selected only dialogue that I felt was crucial to the structure of our story. I also used lots of quick cuts and included the scene where Brenda snoops off the further adhere to conventions and help convey to our target audience.  

While making this revision, I moved around the order of lots of the scenes and shots. I started off with an establishing shot of the Crawford's home and an opening scene that was similar to my last script, but this time I segued into the missing shot and police scene. With introducing these in this sequence and making all this happen at a fast pace really helps to entice the target audience of male 15-25.

Sebi, Alex, and I based this script for our trailer off the trailer Run Rabbit Run. We liked this one. as it is similar to the storyline he wrote where it shows trauma and a little girl. In this film, the sisters had gotten into another of their many fights, which ended with Sarah hitting Alice over the head with a rabbit trap, causing her to bleed. Scared and panicked, Sarah pushed Alice to her death off a cliff and never told anyone. I can acknowledge that our story lines aren't the most similar, but the structure of this script was something we wanted to replicate.

The trailer that Sebi primarily worked on contains various engaging and interesting elements. Since the genre focus is psychological horror, he had to make his somewhat confusing and mind-bending. Using match cuts will show parallels used in the film creating unsettling answers that the audience with no knowledge of what they are seeing would be interested in. Our audience wouldn’t know who the Abductor is because of the various contradictions to the mystery. At first audiences would believe it is a paranormal spirit tormenting a young girl who just lost her sister, then audiences would believe her father is somehow connected to the abductor, and finally audiences would see the dark side of the protagonist. The audience will question who the Abductor is, leaving them to want to find out by watching the movie.

After Sebi, Alex, and I were done analyzing our notes and feedback from our instructor ,Ms. Marquis, we began doing revisions. As a group we needed to take another look the Run Rabbit Run trailer, so we can study it closer to further follow its structure. Ms. Marquis advised us to cut out the two last pages of the script. She believed that those final pages revealed too much of the story. Those pages contained a lot of match cuts that revealed parallels between Tammy and the Abductor. Those match cuts show that she is the abductor, so our instructor said not to make obvious. Ms. Marquis told us to show the abductor less to make the very few shots that it is in very powerful and frightening. Ms. Marquis also emphasized that we put a great emphasis on Tammy Crawford, our lead actor.

Furthermore, Ms. Marquis also advised us to switch around some scenes. Originally, Sebi made the scene where Tammy and the Abductor were sitting together on the swing sets near the end to not contradict the fact that Tammy and the Abductor would befriend each other near the end. Instead of match cutting the Abductor chasing Tammy to Tammy chasing herself, Sebi changed it to match cut Max Crawford chasing his daughter Tammy. This was incorporated near the end to leave the viewer believing that Max is the Abductor.

Ultimately, This newly revised script is definitely an upgrade than the script we had before. Initially this trailer was supposed to target an older female audience. Now, this newly constructed trailer will target 16+ years of age females. This trailer covers the emotional toll parental abuse could have on a child. Tammy is a young female that is constantly abused by her father. When her sister Brenda disappeared, Tammy's abuse was pushed to the max. Max Crawford blamed Tammy for letting Brenda disappear. After constant abuse for years Tammy ended up acquiring some psychotic abilities and ended up killing her sister Brenda the night of her disappearance. Tammy for then began to see a black figure that would follow her around and torment her. She blames the Abductor for the disappearance of Brenda. She then kills her father at the end to get rid of this personified trauma that Max inflicted on her. In our trailer, We make it seem like Tammy is the complete victim, when in reality she's the killer.

But when Sebi actually pitched her the script...yikes. The dark, traumatic nature of Tammy's story totally overwhelmed her. It turned out Jillian's more used to upbeat musical roles, and this was way outside her comfort zone. Sebi then realized she wasn't the Tammy he envisioned.

So, back to the drawing board! We started scouting theater students, knowing they'd have some acting chops. And that's when Sebi pitched the idea of a girl named Alessa. This girl just radiated the right energy - smart, talented, and experienced. Plus, she wasn't afraid of a challenge.

When Sebi offered her the role, her eyes lit up! We're already scheduling shoots and locations. With Alessa on board, I know we've got the perfect Tammy. This project just got a whole lot more exciting

Instead of throwing two trailer scripts at her, he started with our main script rough draft. It tells Tammy's full, traumatic story, which might have seemed overwhelming at first, but it helped Alessa truly grasp the character. Plus, he knew Alessa was more drawn to deeper, darker roles than musicals and comedies, unlike Jillian, who I considered earlier. So, she seemed like a perfect fit for Tammy's intensity.

After reading the script, we went over it together. Alessa mostly understood it, but got stuck on the significance of Tammy's black eye. Once we explained how it metaphorically shows Tammy morphing into her own abuser, the lightbulb went off for her! She was hooked, excited to tackle such a complex character.

Alessa then committed to working on Tammy's lines and embodying the character fully. But what truly blew me away was her dedication beyond acting. This hard-working friend insisted on helping us find the rest of the cast! Now, she's part of our actor search squad.

From her unwavering support to her exceptional acting skills and passion for Tammy's role, Alessa brings so much to the table. She radiates a positive, motivating energy that will be crucial for keeping the cast and crew hyped on recording days.

For our actors, we will offer small incentives like meals, transportation, or compensation for their time. Going into this schedule, it is paramount that we remain flexible, and have backup plans in case of unforeseen circumstances like scheduling conflicts or weather issues.

When it's all set in stone, we will utilize tools like Doodle, WhenAvailable, or Calendly. These platforms allow individuals to share their availability and vote on suitable dates/times, streamlining the process.

In the meantime, we are just waiting on word from Alessa, playing the role of Tammy, because it is crucial we work around her, and additionally, she will be obtaining the availability for the rest of the cast she brings for our trailer.

We had a plan to recruit this kid named Andrew as the abductor, as he really wanted to be in this film, but we agreed that Andrew would be solid in the role of a therapist.

Andrew has a very soft voice and is willing to put forward his best effort to this role, so we are excited for him to try out this position.

If Andrew does not do well this first cut, we may need to switch actors, but we have full confidence in him.

I initially mentioned that my cousin could possibly play this role, but Sebi pitched his older brother. Sebi’s older brother already has great outfits that would fit the role of the detective. His outfits are dark and professional, with a big coat and some suits.

Sebi said that his older brother was really interested in our project and was happy to help us out.

Apparently, Nico, Sebi’s brother, is a very good actor. Nico looks exactly like someone we would want to cast for this role, so we are happy to have him along.

We pondered on the fact of having Alissa play the role of the abductor, but we think that it would be too obvious it would be her wearing the suit. Since the outline of the abductor is really just Tammy's trauma following her, we believed it wasn't essential that it was Alessa in the costume, but to have a tall, slender outline. Sebi's friend, Andrew, has been very vocal to us that he has wanted to be in this film from the start. Andrew would be a great actor to play the abductor. Andrew is very tall and skinny, so he would fit the exact criteria that we are looking for. For the actor of the Cop, I figured that my cousin may be a good fit for the job. He is around 26 years old and could fit the part, but the only downside to him playing the role is that a realistic Cop costume may be too expensive or will be hard to find. With this being said, if we experience any issues with this, we could easily change the role to something like a detective.

We really thought that Alessa did a great job at acting and that she really used great intonation as she voiced our voiceovers.

While we met with each other, we talked about plans for the next cut and all agreed that there aren't major things that we want to change, but we would like to try and make the font better and tiuch up on the filters.

The idea was for Andrew to dress up nicely and set up a camera of himself and answer a select set of questions that I have previously assigned for him to answer. I would later edit the post and post it on the Instagram account d for more content.

At first, Andrew was on board and agreed to participate with the fav or that I asked of him. But then, as time went on, I never got anything sent to me from Andrew. Andrew apologized to me and said that he was very busy and eventually I told him that he didn't need to make this video for me because in reality, it's not his obligation and I also do not want to stress the poor guy out.

Explain Research through social media :

As of right now, nothing is official. I made this all rough at the moment. Currently, we are experiencing technical difficulties on uploading some of the photos that are intended on our poster. We used a professional camera, but we need to get an SD card reader, but that should be settled by tonight.

Fortunately, we already have three cameras—two of which are capable of recording 4K footage. Sebi gave me access to a Sony a6400, a Sony a7iii, and a Canon EOS 60d. The Sony a6400 is a little, all-around camera, the Canon takes amazing pictures, and the Sony a7iii is fantastic for recording 4K films. The Sony a7iii was mostly utilized for filming the trailers, while the Canon was employed to take the images for our posters.

Sebi then gave me access to microphones as well. He was originally going to use my Comica WM300-tx Lavalier Microphones, but there appeared to be a receiver issue. A strong static noise would always be audible in the background whenever voice audio was recorded. As a result of this issue, we were forced to use the Comica Boom XD Lavalier Microphones, which were sufficient and portable devices for recording audio. Although there was a missing transmitter when we first started utilizing the microphones, it wasn't a big deal because we only required one microphone to shoot.

All things considered, we were quite lucky to already have all the equipment we needed. Apart from the issues with the microphone, we didn't really run into any other technical difficulties while filming on both days. We are happy with the way things worked out, and the photo shoot was a lot of fun.

As we were making our poster, we decided we wanted the letters for the word "transfigure" to start of white and slowly turn black. We used a picture of Tammy with the Abductor in the background grabbing her shoulder. This picture was taken on one of Sebi's nice cameras, so the quality of the actual image is insane.

Alex did a nice job incorporating different gradients and textures to our poster, as well as adding our logos and release date to the bottom.

In the top of my poster, I added a gradient blur, so that you can see our actors names much clearer. I tried to keep a clean and modern look that truly highlighted the quality of this picture. I believe that the word document that this picture is attached to is messing up the clarity of this picture because it is really good quality when we look at it on other forms of software and technology.

We used Sebi's fancy camera that he used for YouTube and I wanted to highlight that.

As a group, I think we all liked the idea of my format, but we knew it could be much better. I am willing to try and revise this, but before I look at it form a different perspective, we want to see how Alex's turns out.

Sebi had a great idea and suggested that I zoom in on the video and create the blur on the top and bottom, so it fills out the whole screen on Instagram reels while viewing.

I decided to add a cannon sound effect at the end to help blend the original sound on the video with a nice place to stop. Creating this teaser was a challenge as I could only use screen recordings from Sebi’s original edit, as it would be too much to send all the clips over.

I kept a similar theme of the font for the title of “Transfigure” at the end and made “March 13, 2025” in like a little kids hand writing because I thought it was cool, but it also aligned well with my previous research.

As we were looking at Dark’s social media page earlier in the year, we all agreed that we like how dark made a chart of pictures all connecting through multiple posts. When we were making the image that we split up into 3 posts for our social media page, we were confused at first. We were going to post our movie trailer, but unfortunately with the size and ratios of the posts it didn't work.

Coming across this barrier, Alex volunteered to make a new poster/ banner we could include in our Instagram page, and would also be able to be used on a YouTube channel.

In addition to this, we also added a highlight of behind the scenes. Both Dark and the Nuns social media pages uses the highlights in some sort, so this highlight gives viewers an interesting look, but also helps to make our page more professional.

In the image attached to this post, I highlighted our social media page in red, and the other two pages are un highlighted. This image provides a good example on some of the things I talked about basing the account off of.

One difference between my poster and Alex's is that Alex only used 3 names at the top while I used 4. When I made my poster, I put Andrew's name on there because I thought he deserved it with the great work that he has done for us, but realistically, if this were an actually movie, he wouldn't get much screen time so it would make too much sense to include him.

While doing some research on the percentage of people who watch horror films from different parts of the world, I can say that outside of the U.S, two countries we could focus on are Mexico and in Spain.

After putting two and two together, I decided that it would be a good idea to make an Instagram caption in English, but then follow it up with a caption below translated in Spanish, so that Spanish views could be included as well.

Initially, I wanted to make a Spanish trailer or video post just as another element to these social media pages, but unfortunately, we were unable to make these Spanish versions in a timely manner.

I know that our main genre is not completely horror, but this research provides a good suggestion based on part of our genre.

As this idea seemed to be less and less accomplishable considering the amount of time we had to submit our blog posts, unfortunately, we had to turn to a much simpler route. Our group decided to put QR codes on the back of sketches of the abductor. This way, when participates inspected the sketch, they bumped into the QR code in which they could easily access our Instagram platform.

Alex worked on the background of our YouTube page design. We will also incorporate this work by Alex into our Instagram page, so we are very thankful for him to share his talents with us.

On our YouTube page, we will be posting both final trailers and hope that these trailers can make their ways to our target audience.

Although we already have an Instagram page, having a YouTube page will be a good complement, because it may draw folks with a greater attention span, compared to Instagram users who are used to watching short reels.

This time, we totally scrapped the beginning part of Max Crawford and the detective that previously looked like a short film. We kept some clips from that opening but did not keep them in order like a short film.

I really like that we all agreed on the new addition of the piano no copyright music (I'm not sure on the exact title but I know Sebi has it).

There are lots of pros to this cut, but also some minuscule details that we have to fix. For example, Sebi added some fake ratings and quotes into our trailer that aligns with previous observations through research, but they look a bit corny. After watching this cut over a couple times, we decided it was essential to also add some new title cards and end the trailer with our production logo for our final cut.

I also made it clear to my team that we should add a quick missing poster of Brenda Crawford. This has been something that I wanted to include since the very first cut, and after showing some friends what we have, they agreed that it would be way less confusing if the missing poster was included. What was happening is that some friends thought Tammy was the one missing after watching the trailer, so we think its better to keep enforcing this clarity.

Sebi mentioned that a few of issues arose during the camera and microphone setup. There were a lot of people eating, chatting, and moving around in the beginning. Sebi found it really annoying to film scenes when distractions would destroy them. And lastly, Sebi explained to me that their microphones were picking up music coming from the speakers. The management of the restaurant denied having any control over the music playing around the dining when the group requested if they could at least turn it down. As a result, they had to eliminate a lot of the diner sequences. As a group, we ultimately decided to have our conversation scenes in Rudy's car in order to block out any outside sounds.

As a team, we went over as a group and named some of the things we really liked about the trailer, and what we didn't. The group consensus is that we really like the therapist shots with Andrew, as they look very professional. We also agreed that there is some very good B- roll in this movie. .

The shot of our detective holding a sketch of the abductor is also also a favorite for a lot of us.

As we were watching, I made a bullet list of some of my opinions and divided them into good and bad.

Good :

Andrew's therapist shots

B-roll

Quality of the videos

Voiceovers

L and J cuts

For the things that I think we can improve on, I can say that we all agreed that the beginning of the trailer looked like a short film and not a movie. To split up this hesitant opening, we will have to reshoot Max Crawford and the detective at some type of Diner. Next, we did not have any logo in the trailer, and our title cards looked "corny". I also Thought that we should have had some type of representation of Brenda Crawford in the film, but we were unable to bring her on scene during the time of the film.

Bad :

Title Cards

Looked like Short Film

No Logo

No Brenda

After multiple thoughts, I understand the Teaser is not perfect, but with technical difficulties with our main trailer, more of our attention was brought to that, so there ended up being less attention brought to our teaser.

Transfigure Official Trailer (Older Audience) Changes From Rough Cut to Final Cut:

• Over a dozen of sound fixes and cleared up white noise

• Quality slightly upscaled

• Timeline change

• Removal and addition of multiple L and J cuts

• Two mixed soundtracks

• Changed fonts

• Changed captions

• Changed color grading

• Addition of multiple clips

• Addition of audios

• Addition of voiceovers

• Removal of voiceovers

• Removal of clips

• Addition of on screen ratings

• Additional dialogue

• Shortened trailer

• Removed multiple sound effects

• Minor fixes and changes

Transfigure Official Trailer (Older Audience) Changes From Final Cut to Revised Final Cut:

• Addition of Brenda Crawford's missing persons poster

• On screen ratings polished and fixed

• Captions and fonts changed

• Addition of caption animations

• Addition of poster font title card

• Removal of final sequence

• Shortened trailer

• Addition of credits and studio logo

Transfigure Teaser Trailer (younger audience) changes from Rough Cut to Final Cut :

• Changed color grading

• Matched filter with the official trailer

• Font changes and animations

• Cleared up white noise

• Audio fixes

• Kept "Trailer Starts Now" sequence

• addition of voiceover audio isolation