Filming Wrapped

 Aside from one shot, the POV urinal shot to show Bob's expression when he hears the screaming and collapsing from outside the bathroom, we've officially finished filming! On Monday after school we all went back to the school for what would be a short, hour-long wrap up - or so I thought. Unfortunately a few mishaps and unfortunate occurrences were involved that dragged everything out made us rush a little bit in the last few minutes of filming, one of them being that Alejandro's girlfriend, the wife actor, started feeling pretty sick that day and we had to rush to get a back up, but luckily our classmate Nina came in clutch. This meant that we had to refilm some of the teacher's wifes line which we had already recorded, but we only got about 3 lines in and it only cost us about 10 minutes

I also got some quick shots from the outside of the school building to use as either cutaways or some extra shots for exposition or the creation of a teaser later on. This flickering light would serve particularly well in creating a  sort of eerie and foreboding tone so I made sure to get about 15 seconds of footage.

Also, once I begun editing, I hadn't really planned on doing this while it is a key convention of thrillers, but the scene where the wife confronts Bob seemed it like it was screaming for a jumpscare like "RYAN RYAN PLEASE MAKE THIS A JUMPSCARE" so I added a very sharp sting in addition with loud pounding knocks which I found on Pixabay in order to create this:

                                

Additonally, we opted to create the effect of the body having woken up by Alejandro operating the camera, and me standing behind the cart in which the body bag was placed and shaking it aggresively. I also added some muffles to add to the overall comedic effect.

And finally, something I can admit was definitely my fault, but going into filming, I honestly could not for the life of me figure how I wanted to end the piece. Whether it be the tone, or action, I just couldn't figure it out and was hoping once I saw everything there I would decide in the heat of the moment. This is pretty much what happened, and because of how emotional Alejandro's acting was when the teacher passed away for real for real, I decided ending it on a more gloomy note would be best. I decided to recreate this by having him walk back out into the hall, what one can assume is a few days later, and slowly, almost painfully, place the wet floor sign in the middle of the floor. I added my song to it as well and I think it matches together quite well honestly:

Overall, now that I've gotten a rough edit of most of my piece and finished filming, I feel I now have a pretty clear vision of the brand I'm aiming to develop and how I envision my piece turning out in the end.