Third Quarter Submission

Masks is a psychological thriller that takes place in an unknown wooded area. Our protagonist played by Daniel McCarthy is running from a group of masked figures. This scene is chronologically the last of the film as the film is about Dan investigating the cult that is chasing him. In our original post for the midterm, we mentioned that we had issues with the audio, cutting, and camera quality. We were able to fix the issues with audio and the cutting. The audio issue came from the camera that we were using that had a broken microphone. The cutting issue can from the original editing software that we were using, ShotCut. We were able to fix the software for this submission and my group and I are trying to get a better editing software. The camera quality issue is still present as we don't have reliable access to a camcorder with consistent quality. We used an iPhone 7+ for the reshooting. Besides the issue of camera quality, the only other issue we faced was the use of audio. For this submission, we used a royalty-free song during the beginning, but we are working on creating incidental music for the scene.

Revision 3 - Other Changes

Between the midterm and third quarter submissions, there were a lot of small changes that fit under different categories.

Audio:

We changed the music from a song named "Mysterious Psychological Horror Music" by Dukkha to a song named "Run and Hide" by Jens Kilstofete. The main reason for the change was that the original choice felt like it was to slow, whereas the latter choice gives a sense of speed and intensity that we were looking for.

Editing:

We changed the sequence of shots that we used. In the original, we excluded the shot of Dan running past the camera with both terrorists in the background due to time restraint, but after editing some shots out we decided to reinclude the shot. This caused us to move the reshoot of the shot after later in the video for a connecting shot between two events.

Camera Angle:

In the gimble shot of Dan running, we made the terrorist a little harder to see but still visible. This is to add a sense of confusion as the audience should be able to see him and question why he was there before the realize that Dan is running from them.