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       The transition that is being used for me and my group members film is fade in and fade out. We aren't using any effect to my knowledge at the moment. And our title is in bold and dark red since it is a horror film.     The reason for that transitions is because that's really the only transitions we were really familiar with at the time, then when we explored more we thought the fade in and out was the best fit because it faded into an all black dark screen giving it a scary look and feel.       The reason for us not using effects is because we felt as if we didn't need effects at the moment in editing, but i'm pretty sure we'll go back before our project is due and re-look over our past editing and make multiple changes     

    A few changes and revisions were made during production and after we met up about the 2nd time because we realized we were making the film final product much more difficult than it had to be. We changed some parts in our script and we changed one of our genres because we had two genres before. It was a horror and comedy film.      We also changed one of our actors as well because they were not able to meet up. So, I took that members part of the script/film. We also changed a lot of scenes because it was making things extremely complicated for us as a whole. And we realized that we could make it a much easier task and fun for us as we did our film.

  W hat I learned mainly about was learning how to use the technologies for the film... It was super simple, but it also wasn't extremely hard. Me and my group members found out how to use most of the equipment within/under 10 minutes.    I learned stuff about cameras that I never knew.  I learned that all cameras don't work the same. I learned about our camera and that it was different from other cameras, it started recording differently the other cameras i've used before. I learned a lot about the microphone, it was easy but hard at the same time if that makes sense. It was a lot of buttons and if you pressed one button that you weren't or at least made one mistake the whole audio would have been ruined.     I also learned about more than technology, I learned how to become a little more comfortable with meeting new people. I usually don't really talk to people I don't know, so when I had to become group partners with people I rarely even knew I wasn't re...

      Yes, indeed I did work from influences when recording certain shots and scenes. As I said in previous blogs me and my group members pictured our film coming out a little like  anonymous. (link to a video and article of anonymous down below) https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article66480742.html          Another influence I used was the purdge and horror movie. These are all horror movies that me and my partners tried to use as examples to form our own type of lovable film and compared theirs scenes and shots and used all of the influences as examples and made our own masterpiece.

    W hat I learned about using production technologies is that it isn't simple, but learning how to use the technologies also wasn't extremely hard. Me and my group members found out how to properly use the equipment within 10 minutes max... It was obviously the most basic levels of knowledge since we wouldn't be need the equipment long term.     The technology we used was our phones, which we already knew how to use. A Kodak camera which we had to read about a little to understand how to operate. A portable studio microphone that my group members older sister showed us how to use, which was connected to the computer which made it 10x more easier to understand. Then sometimes we used lighting but mainly natural lighting majority of the time.     What I learned about the camera is that it was different from other cameras, it started recording differently the other cameras. I learned a lot about the microphone, it was easy but hard at the same time if that m...

       Difficulties that were encountered along the way was problems meeting up, problems with equipment, problems with locations, and etc.     Let me explain our difficulties that we encountered in more details... For the meeting up problems it would be some days that 1 or 2 of us was available then the other 1 or 2 was not available. Or it would be transportation issues on someones end, but we managed to plan ahead of time 2 weeks per meet up and met up about 3/4 times.      With equipment it was a few times that the technology would die completely and we would have to wait about 1-3 hours for the technology to charge (camera, computers, phones). Or equipment would not turn on at all but it was rare, it only happened about 2 times.     With the locations sometimes we would not know who's house was the best fit for us to get work done for our project, then sometimes we would finishes filming at my partners house late like around 7p...