Revisions and Final Touches

     As editing comes to a finish, there are some notable issues, revisions, and other characteristics improved. For example...I am astounded I was not aware of the issue earlier but we overshot. Way too much. Although I felt each shot was the perfect amount of time for the tones and characterization established, the film opening's time limit is 2 minutes, not 3-4 minutes which would have been the time without scrapping many shots and shortening the ones used. Despite this, I barely managed to create the near-perfect product within the timeframe which I am proud of. Another issue was the underwhelming/unnecessary effects of the audios. During the royalty-free sound researching, I came across anxiety-inducing sounds but each of them led too deeply into the horror realm rather than something simple like I desired - a pounding heartbeat or an increasing-tempo violin. Nyx and I discussed how to resolve this issue after I sent them the excerpt from my opening, and relied on simply not having any sound during the looking-at-painting sequence instead of using sound since it would lead to similar effects without leaning into differing and abnormal genres for the product. 

    However, one of my favorite issues, favorite because of the way it was resolved, was that upon reviewing the final version, both of ours combined with the best aspects, was the way the title sequence was portrayed and the effects added. I did not expect it to come to the quality the final product did, especially with two seemingly minor revisions added: color correction, and credits. The issue at hand was that the painting seemed extremely underwhelming and not up to par with the rest of the opening, which was amplified by there being no sound - a choice being upheaved against our favor. However, Nyx added a distortion effect along with darkened, colder colors that solved this and was supported by the choice of no sound. In relation to that, the title transition, as it transitioned back to the painting, naturally became whiter colored as a result of regaining focus on the surroundings - it looked like some effects I have seen before in movies and shows where such lighting was used to imply lucid-like states, as if coming out of a dream. I requested to see if the effect could be amplified and it came out perfectly:

    And so, finally, the film opening has been completed! Link will be coming soon!

   

    Otherwise, the CCR needed minimal final touches and revisions to it, since I generally finalize the product as I work through the clips in Adobe Premiere Pro. The final product did not come out to be stagnant, a talking head, because of the other shots I used from the opening as well as inspirations from Parasite and Dead Poet's Society.