Sound at the End

We downloaded a guitar melody to compliment the final shot of me walking up the drive. It is simple but we both feel it works as it contrasts the tension built up beforehand. We took it again from the web site 'free sound.org'. This web site has proven to be very useful to us as we have got all of our sounds barring the diagetic ones, from there.

Image Control

We needed to make all the walking shots more gloomy, so we changed the image control and pushed the blue bar up slightly so we took out all the warmth. It was too red with the leaves so the blue toned that down a bit. We also moved a few things around such as the close up of my face bleeding in the mirror so it made the film easier to understand what was going on.

Film Opening Changes

We decided to change our film opening compared to our storyboard as we felt it would fit better with the story. What i mean by this is that the ending on our storyboard didn't have '3 Days Earlier'. We felt we needed to change it also so because we needed to include an extra few seconds so we could get to the time limit of 10% either side of two minutes. We added on the '3 days earlier' shot so our film didn't look like a trailer and it looked like a film opening.

Credits

We open our crdits with 'Critical Pictures presents' which then cuts back to me walking. A few seconds later we cut to black to see 'A Waters/Smith production'. Yet again we cut back to the action with myself walking to the stairs. It then cuts to 'A Nathan Waters Film'. We then have 'Directed by Nathan Waters' when the tap shot is being shown. Then it cuts to 'Produced by Owen Smith'

Hue and Saturation

To make each flashback obvious to the audience, we subtly changed the hue and saturation. We put the hue up on every shot tht involed myself walking to the woods. We put it up to about 10. For the saturation, we put the saturation up to 130 on every bathroom scene. For the bathroom shots we also put the Hue down to minus 15. This created a contrast from the woods to the flashbacks as both were different saturations. This also creates a darker feel over the flashbacks as this is where Mary is in the mirror.

Editing - The Mirror Scene

For the mirror scene, we had to overlay two images in the mirror. To do this we used the Four-Point Garbage Matte which allowed us to cut part of one shot, the mirror, with the shot of me looking at my hands. This is what we set out to do as now it shows me panicking while in the mirror, Mary is in my body staring at me. Blood is pouring from my eyes in the mirror but not in real life. We then added a fast blur over the top so it covered up any gap in the mirror and made it look like Mary fades in. We had positioned the camera in my bath so we had a set position. This meant that the camera wouldn't be moving meaning the angle of both images would be the same. This was important because if they were at different angles it wouldn't look the same.

Sound - 23rd March 2010

We have found a few sounds to use as the backtrack in our film. The main backing track is simply called tension and we got this from the website free sounds.org . Another sound we are thinking of using is called toms effect. It is a few drums beating a very slightly different times to create a tension builder.