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Making a Postcard for Among Us

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  The creation of a postcard for our film was my responsibility. I wasn’t sure how to make a film postcard so I needed to do some research. I used sample postcards from Regal Cinema to gain inspiration for the general format that my postcard should have. Once I understood what exactly a movie postcard was supposed to contain, I needed an outlet to create them. I am very familiar with Adobe Photoshop so that program was my first option, but I decided against it because I would have to lay all the groundwork myself. I settled on using Canva, an online card creating website. Canva is very user friendly with basic controls and it has a variety of templates that can be tweaked to fit the user’s needs.  Honestly the design process went a lot smoother than I would have thought. It was very easy because our film had a pretty specific theme so I could sort Canva by them. I was going for eerie woods when creating these postcards and I think that they came out well. My groupmates gave me total cr
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Editing: Finishing Touches

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 We are nearing the end of the process.  The film creation process, that is.  We have completed filming already as well as planning.  Filming was a ton of fun.  We got together with our friends and spent a day filming the movie from afternoon to dark.  There were a fair share of problems with our filming.  Namely, the location had its obvious weaknesses and the daylight escaped us faster than we could predict.  The editing process has not been easy either.  It is fun working together with everyone to put together the clips we shot in the best order.  All that's left to do is a few finishing touches.  One important one is finding sound.  No matter what type of sound it is, whether its music or sfx, we need to add some sound.  A lot of the shots are too quiet for our liking and we would like to spruce them up with some imported audio.  I know I mentioned a song but, I don't think we have a good way to add a song to our film.  We brainstormed and contemplated whether we should add
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Among Us Film

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  This is our film, it was a long and arduous process but we are happy with the finished result.  Most importantly, we learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
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Editing Process Experience

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  Being one of two editors, communication is key to efficiency. It is important that the end product is one that we both (alongside our third groupmate) are happy with. This blog is going to be a recount of our editor meetings where we discuss our vision for the blog and give suggestions to one another. We try not to interfere with each other’s editing process too often; once we pass the file to each other, we kind of let each other have free reign. Our reasoning behind this is to avoid “backseat editing”. Rather than constantly chirping in each other’s ear while editing we try to give a general explanation of our desired outcomes and we try to work off each other’s suggestions. We often edit in Discord calls however. Discord is an application that allows us to livestream our editing process to each other and communicate audibly while doing so. When in these calls the editor that is not actively editing the film typically just mutes themself and stands by until the other editor has a q
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Editing Blog #1

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     The editing process began with myself identifying what footage was the best among the footage that we had recorded. Once I had determined which scenes were superior, I put them in the correct order. After putting the scenes in the proper sequence, I needed to shorten the scenes down to their proper length. Almost every scene had excess footage that needed to be cut such as short periods of time where the cameraman is fumbling to stop recording. After a bit of tweaking, I got the duration of each scene down to where they needed to be. I realize that the scenes may need to be altered more, or cut altogether, later in the editing process, but I just wanted to get each scene down to their proper length early on. The next step was to make sure there were no audio issues. Unfortunately, we had many audio issues. The film location was less than ideal so there were many elements that were out of our control. We filmed somewhat close to a highway so there are some car sounds that we need t
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Filming Blog: Problems

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Previously, I wrote about the location of filming.  More specifically, that it was in a new spot and that it had its own fair share of problems.  Well, the location wasn't the only problem.  There were problems with many other things.  For example, the time of day we filmed.  Another example is the noise.  The time we arrived at the park was around 3:00.  As I mentioned before, we wanted to film during the afternoon.  This was to simulate the position of the sun in the morning.  So, we would film all the necessary shots that happen in the morning first.  After it got darker, we planned to film the shots that take place at nights.  In other words, the beginning of the movie.  However, filming took longer than we expected.  We ended up filming a lot of shots that were supposed to take place in the morning during a time that was a little bit too dark.  So, when we got to the shots that were supposed to happen at night, it was very dark.  If you watch our movie, you will notice how dar
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Filming Blog: Location

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 Among Us shares many similarities with our previous project Among Them.  Among them was shot in a dark forest similar to Among Us.  Also, the setting for both projects is a campsite.  We did this intentionally.  We figured that Among Them came out very good and that we wanted to expand upon our idea in a newer, longer project.  So, we decided to film in a spot similar to the place where Among Them was filmed.  Among them was filmed in a park called Markham Park.  When we were planning Among Them, we had a big dilemma with finding a filming site.  We wanted an abandoned building initially, but later changed to a dark forest.  But, we live in a rather developed part of south Florida.  So, it was hard for us to find a place with enough trees to pass as a forest.  Markham park was the only option close enough.  So, when we went back to Markham Park on filming day, our first idea was to use the same spot as we did for Among Them.  But, one of the actors had a better idea.  He arrived at th
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