Adam project 👍🥖

 We removed some scenes and dialogues so we wouldn’t go over the 2 minutes, and we added music to keep the viewers on edge, with sound effects to further accentuate the opener and not have it be as dull.

  Illusion Of Choices: The Movie Opener The movie  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJdfdrT6-A (If link above does not work) third option if the other ones do not work.

 I think we did overall pretty good on our project, and I'm proud of what we managed to accomplish with what little resources and time we had. We didn't have too many issues at recording, but during editing I found that some scenes were cut too early, or dragged on for too long, and it was hard to find good music and sound effects to use. For changes we ended up removing a scene because we felt it fit better without, and we switched up the dialogue and cut some additional scenes we were going to use because we would've gone over the time limit. I learned more about movie editing and what goes into the production and filming of a movie. I used editing and filming tricks I learned in class to help in the movie, such as angles, ways to shoot, and transitions.  

  I spent around 2 hours editing the project, I was in a call with Sebastian the entire way where I shared my screen so he could give me constructive criticism and advice.  Additional Info: Me and Sebastian had a lot of fun testing the different transitions and effects that we could have potentially used for the opener.

 I am the editor for our movie opener, I am working on it alone, with some slight feedback from Sebastian. I used Davinci Resolve, which I used because it came with a lot of great features for free, which helped me a lot in editing the film. For diegetic sound effects, I added footsteps for whenever Emir's character walked, some car sound effects and car crash stock sound effects, and then finally I added a choking sound effect for the very end of the opener. For non-diegetic music I used unsettling music to keep the viewers on edge and dreamy-like music for the flashback.

 Our group has been doing a great job, everyone has been pulling their weight. What I found most challenging was making sure everything was set up for filming, such as what we would film with, location, and a time and date we could all film on.

 We just used natural lighting for our movie opener, I had the blinds opened to let in light, and the lights turned on so it wasn't as dark. We wanted to make it feel as natural as possible, as if it were just a normal therapy session. I didn't feel the need to edit in extra light in production.

Me (Adam) cutting out unnecessary footage and raising the volume for some clips.             Me (Adam), the sole editor for this project. The only real problems I encountered was getting all the correct clips in order and making sure to not exclude any clips out. This was easily solved by just going through and watching our opener to make sure nothing was missed. For video effects we chose to add a recording camera effect, as if the entire conversation was being monitored and recorded. For video transitions not many were used, I added a additive dissolve, which I used to represent the camera turning on and begin its recording. Most of the clips use a smooth cut to make the transition seemingly flawless between different shots.

  We chose the font because it creates a mysterious aura around the film and the corners surrounding the title try to create a older feel and we wanted a simple yet iconic by creating a sleek and thin design . We went with a black background to create a sense of eeriness and fear . We arrived at this decision by talking about what the film is to us , and what it represents and what a physical manifestation of it would look like and we all brought our ideas together and created this title card . this is a prototype we made to get a rough idea of what we wanted it to look like, we then later went back and revisited it and made it look better and more clean.

 The first day of filming went well, we had some ups and downs, like getting the best angle, lighting, speaking loud enough, not laughing or messing up during takes, and not messing up the scene in general. The video looked very good and for the sound, at first we had to adjust to speak a little louder but then it came out good. We had to do several retakes and reshoots but nothing too major, just a line mess up or camera messing up.

Our 3 main colors were: White, grey, and black to represent the 3 moods of Sebastian's character. It shows how his character after the accident can only represent 3 emotions; Joy, irritation, and anger.