More editing for film

 

I combined some of the videos from my previous recordings as well as the animation into the initial film. Overall, after making this I realised I inserted way too many videos that did not flow together. The animation was too long and some of the cuts were either too shaky or abrupt. I did like some of the special features I added including the morph cut into the animation and the scenes when I am going up the stairs, I liked how mysterious they were. 

 More filming

I went along to a local water fountain/pond where I took videos of the local wildlife, I was able to briefly capture a bird at a near close range but to keep up with its movement I had to move the camera a lot which was difficult. I also took various recordings of the water pond and the plants alongside that area. 

I started playing around with camera shots and produced some wide and close up shots.

this is a screenshot showing all the videos I took that day, and below are two of the videos.

Looking and experimenting with music

I was listening to jazz one day and stumbled upon this genre called 'noir jazz/ambient' which to me had a very deeply mysterious tone, I then thought about mixing it with some classical horror music to create subtle chilling effects.

I watched various YouTube videos, the ones I watched the most I have inserted below, my favourites were the film noir with music by Kevin Mcleod and the hunt classical song which I found on 

Marc v/d Meulen YouTube channel.

                                                                             New game

I started building my game in  animate, I decided that for my storyline I would have an alien called max and other animated characters talking to the player.

Ultimately, the players actions determine where max ends up at the end of the game.

In my first scene, I have Max introduced, and the player is told immediately that if they do not complete all of the tasks Max will fall into a black hole. 

This is the character I created, I decided to make their eyes and mouth into movie clips so they would be easier to change within each keyframes.

This is the living room I created earlier with the hole at the bottom. I made the instructions into a movie clip as well so I could easily edit them without changing the contents of the scene too much. 

 Editing.

I focused now more on editing the videos I had into premiere pro,

I then produced this video below, where I combined my daytime filming and night time film, I still had not decided whether I wanted to have my own commentary in the audio or music. 

Overall, I did not render the video enough so it was overly shaky, and it felt incomplete.

Filming in the night.

I intended to take videos of the moon in the night sky, when I had checked the forecast before I had seen clear skies so I expected to see a bright moon, unfortunately was no where to be seen as it had finished it cycle earlier than I expected. Therefore, I instead took recordings of nearby brightly lit buildings and the local street at night. I played around with recording using night mode (hence the black and white videos) and normal mode. Although, I it was difficult bringing out a tripod on this occasion so some videos were slightly shaky, I did enjoy seeing how colours were contrasted in the night. 

Storytelling and gaming: Changing the subject of my game

After having issues with unity I decided to quit using it altogether and put my focus on making a game on animate.

Additionally, I also changed my game concept, I had reached a dead end with the idea of the arson and the murder mystery, 

This same week I had been doing a lot of riddle games with my friends which gave me an idea to learn how to write my own riddles.

    I watched this video from 'Runesmith' on youtube about how to create great riddles.

Overall, I learnt that it personifying the object consistently strengthens the riddle.

I then wrote my first riddle about 'light'

and I begun it by saying 'I am the first thing you see when you wake up' already I had used personification but not in a strongly vague way.

I then made my plan where I chose my topics, I chose: football , headphones, a bucket hat, even pizza

1 )Runesmith,How to Write Riddles:2019.Youtube