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Spiked Movie Opening Changes Made In order to make the poisoning of the victim more clear and obvious, we took new clips off the killer putting the poison in the victim's cup. We also combined those clips with new clips of Kelly, our victim, being sick. Our new movie clip included the title of our movie, as well as the name of the actors in the movie opening. 

What I liked What confused me Suggestions The fade in at the beginning was a very nice touch. The suspenseful music kept me wanting to find out more. The 24 hours earlier was a smart factor to add because viewers want to know what caused the mysterious person to follow and eventually poison the girl. Showing how vigilant the killer was was executed nicely. When the poison was being mixed, it had left me confused. I didn’t know if the girl was mixing it herself or if the killer was mixing it for the girl to come back to. However, I figured the second made the most sense. Show the killer mixing the poison and have more angle variety. For example, when the main character walks through the plaza into Starbucks she could be shown from the front too. The Killer could be shown from a low angle to highlight his or hers importance/ malevolence. I really liked the music and the cuts between the two scenes. It made the plot really easy to follow and I understood what was going on.

Spiked Movie Opening

This week we edited more of the clips we filmed a few weeks ago. We are in the process of finishing up on editing these clips by cropping and organizing clips the way we want the final movie opening to look like. We have a lot of switching between different characters point of views, so we need to crop some of the clips to make them shorter in order to fit in the opening. We still have to film a few more clips for the ending of our opening, so we will be filming later this week. We still need to shoot some clips of our actresses in the dark around nighttime, so we are planning on finding a night where all of us can meet. 

Unfortunately, due to difficulties in organizing a time when all members of the group can get together, we have not finished filming our opening. On the other hand, we have begun piecing together and editing some of the clips we have taken thus far.  When it comes to the editing process, we have begun to organize the clips into an order in which we believe the film will make the most sense and be the most suspenseful. In the clips we have edited so far, there is a lot of cutting back and forth between both of the characters in our film. We also included some clips that display visuals from the point of view of the stalker, as well as an over the shoulder shot. We have yet to come up with a specific title for our movie, but we have begun brainstorming ideas. 

This week our group continued to film our opening. This week we decided to try out some new camera angles and shots in order to fully plan out the rest of the opening. We took some shots of our actress Kelly as she played a scared girl being stalked by a mysterious stranger.   We chose to try some shots of Kelly inside in order to give ourselves options for clips to include in our opening when it came time to edit and put it all together. We took shots of Kelly in a separate outfit to show that time had passed since the stalker had last been watching her. This also allows the rest of the movie to be based on this background information, so it can fill in the pieces and answer questions that the opening left unanswered.