Welcome To My Blog!

This is a post to introduce you to my blog and tell you what I have liked and disliked this year throughout AS Media Studies. Also, this post will inform you about what my blog entails. I have decided to sum up this post through a podcast:
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Final Cut

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Things I have done since the last rough cut:
The only things I have updated for the final cut are some sounds.
1. I found a better version of a scream for the start of the second scene (greenscreen abduction scene).
2. I added some string non-diegetic sounds for the entire lair scene and adjusted the volumes of these sounds and other sounds in this lair scene.
3. I changed some of the titles' fonts in the rape chase scene to the font 'face your fears'. I added a few more titles for the rape chase scene:

• casting by Lisa Fields
• music by Steve Jablonsky
• edited by Daniel Duncan
• written by Steven Zaillian
• produced by Cathy Konrad

I also took away the 'starring' from the Sophie Turner title.

4. I made the last title of the first scene fade out and I made the three years later title fade in. I also made the screams of the second female chase victim fade up too.
5. I added a better secondary music element as the killer goes down the stairs. I made this secondary music better by adding irregular loudish strings with loud short, fast notes. I also changed some of the audio levels of this already existing secondary music element by fading some of the sounds in and by making some of the sounds louder.

Final Rough Cut

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Things I have done since the last rough cut:

Idents:
1. I put music over second ident.
2. I made the second ident fade to red instead of just being red the entire time.

Rape Chase Scene:

1. I faded in the diegetic sounds of the female rape victim's breathing over the third ident, not just having the sounds at full level immediately. I played with non-diegetic music audio levels too to make the heartbeat stand out.

Green Screen Abduction Scene:

1. I continued the screaming over the black intertitles, and faded up the screaming. I also changed the pitch and tone of this scream to make it sound like a different girl victim to the first.
2. I used a different sound to the same metallic/electrical sound on the shots of the bag being put over the head. I realised I needed something better for both the shots of the bag being put over the head. I also added a sounds that make a real audio punch, to go with the transition between the abduction scene and the lair scene. 

3. I added more titles into the first scene such as casting by, music by, written by.

4. I faded the non-diegetic music up in the second scene (greenscreen abduction scene) to build up scare so that there is a jump in audio when it finally comes on. 

6. I dropped the 2 shots in the rape chase scene showing the victim girl well in the distance.

7. At 0:57 I realised that the sound FX before was too metallic.

8. At 1:51 I took away a tiny moaning sound over one of the keyframed tied-up takes.

9. At 1:22 I changed the cross-fade to a fade to-in from black to denote ellipsis and I carried over the busy studio sound (reduced audio obviously) as ambient sound.

Lair Scene:

1. I re-recorded and added better diegetic sounds of Alex gagging and moaning continuously throughout the lair scene.

2. I changed the loud scream at the very end of the film opening by re-recording it because I realised it might have not been the most convincing scream ever. 

3. I added a secondary music element as the killer goes down stairs. This secondary music I added was long bass notes, plucked strings, irregular fast notes, long drawn out notes and fast notes. 

4. At the start of the lair scene I added more tied-up shots of Alex crosscut in between the shots of the female killer walking down the stairs. With those shots, I added much better diegetic sound which is distantly audible as the female killer goes down stairs - it was very low and muffled, but there; it gets louder as she nears.
5. I added a musical emphasis on the shot of the candles on floor because it gets extra creepy at this point. The following shots all ramp up the horror so I also needed non-diegetic music to make it extra creepy.

6. I decided to bring in the heartbeat later, when the crosscutting starts at the end when the female killer is walking towards the victim.