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Final Task

 Hey guys I'm very excited to show you our final task after months of hard work. I hope you guys enjoy it and I had so much fun making it.

Production Blog: Finishing Touches

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 Hey bloggers and welcome back to my blog, we're nearing the end of our time to make this opening sequence. The sequence is looking greater than it has ever looed and I'm very proud of how it has come out. All I have to do is upload the video on Vimeo and try and embed it into our next blog. This however was more of a struggle than I anticipated it would be. My computer like last time was not cooperating with me and I had to go through various help forums in order to fix the issue. This was slightly frustrating as it took up about like 15 minutes of my time. After the video was finally uploaded, I ran into the previous issues I had with my other forms of media I had submitted before. The sequence came out in 480p and made the sequence look horrible and as if it were filmed on an ancient camera. Once again I had to adjust the frame rate and quality of video before publishing. This led to the video taking far longer to export however and took about 30 minutes. Afte uploading the

Production Blog: Minor Tweaks

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 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the progression of creating our own opening sequence. Its been quite a bit since I last checked in and there's been a few things I want to update you guys on. Together as a group we came together and decided to tweak some of our film and that began with the titles of our production companies and studios. We wanted to come up with names that seemed professional and seemed like they could actually be used in some of the movies the public watches today. The production company name came to us very quickly and we were able to create a professional name in around 5 minutes. The name we came up with might sound a little cliche but ultimately our production company is called Wildlife Productions. This made sense to us as we filmed our film mostly outdoors and during these outdoors scenes a majority of them were filmed around native wildlife and natural environments. The next name we had to come up with was the studio name we would use to represent ourselve

Production Blog: A Few Things I Forgot to Mention

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 Hey bloggers and welcome back to my blog, today's blog is going to be a bit different from what's recently been uploaded. The last few blogs have been about editing and improving my opening sequence to get ready for submission. This blog however, is more about what I forgot to mention over the past few months like how we got the props for our set and how as a group we worked together. To begin with how we gathered the props necessary to make our scenes look the best possible. We first picked up a gorilla suit from party city and made sure it was breathable so the person using it wouldn't overheat. Since we also couldn't use a real dead animal, we had to improvise using rags and making an animal like shape. We also had made our own fake blood using a cheap recipe with ingredients we already had. The blood turned out too sticky and far too bright and cartoony, so I scrapped it. We then just went and brought an entire gallon of dark fake blood in order to have the most pr

Production Blog: Still Making a Few Edits

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 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the creation of my opening sequence. Much similar to the theme of our past few blogs. We're going to be looking back at my film sequence and continuing to make even more changes as I still do not feel satisfied. Today I was really analyzing the pacing and order of the scenes in our opening sequence. Every time I rewatched I felt something was off, but I could never quite put my finger on it, this bothered me throughout the whole week. I felt that there was something wrong with how the plot was structured and how the movie transitioned and how long each portion of the plot was. I tried moving around the scenes entirely shifting them out of place. Trying new structures of the plot but it strayed too far from the original pitch and was confusing at times. Throughout this process I was getting increasingly frustrated which was obstructing my creative thinking. I took a break for a few days and rewatched the sequence again. I realized that I had been ov

Production Blog: Editing

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 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the continuation of my opening sequence. Today I will be tinkering throughout my sequence attempting to make it as improved as possible. Very similarly to what I did with my last blog. Considering how much I tweaked during the film review and the critique I used. It was relatively hard for me to see what was still wrong with the opening sequence. This meant I had to thoroughly watch and rewatch our current sequence in order to find thing I could improve upon. This took me roughly about 35-50 minutes before finding pieces of the opening sequence that were not up to standard. The first thing I changed was the positioning of the titles as I wasn't very fond of where they previously were. At times the titles blocked out some important backgrounds or scenes due to their position and size. After noticing this I shifted almost all of the titles so that they would occupy different corners in places without importance to the sequence. I made sure however, t