Reflection

The development of my portfolio project was pretty rocky because I had to make many changes especially because of the whole lock down. It wasn't hard once I chose the horror genre to develop the idea of a stalker.. This I feel reaches out to any type of audience especially females who may not be aware it is happening to them. In the beginning I had a different view on how the stalker was going to be portrayed. I had the idea that the stalker would be following the girl. I can be a stubborn person so having to stray from my idea was difficult for me to overcome at first. I had my cast all set but I'm glad as to how it played out because it was easier to shoot with no cast or dialogue since it gave me more time to focus on the content and the props that I made. The props were a huge part of creating the tone of the piece so I made sure to pay attention to detail when creating it.

Something I really struggled with was communication. I would often work on the project but not post about it until after I finished and I guess as I went through I I started to get a little more comfortable on the page and share a little more, but that is definitely something that I needed to work and focus more on.

I'm very happy with the end result of my project nonetheless since I accurately represented my original thought. I was scared at the beginning of the project that I would stray away from what I wanted my main idea to be, which is to invoke fear, not through monsters with masks on but from the ones hidden in plain sight in society. I honestly felt kind of strange putting myself in the shoes of a stalker and as I progressed in the project I became uncomfortable putting the props together. For example I would have my dad or my brother follow me around with the camera as I was walking my dog or as I was working out and the further I got into the project the more I realized how possible it is for it to happen to any girl or even boy. I could have gotten carried away with playing around with editing or the music but throughout the whole thing I was able to keep focus on the idea and the message that I wanted the audience to capture. I feel like my final project did this and I'm very happy about the result.

Final Product!

I'm finally done! Here's the result :)

https://www.wevideo.com/view/1683883051

Editing

I started editing what I had previously filmed and am struggling a bit with transitioning between images. I had thought of doing quick pans between images but because there will be so many images this may overwhelm the viewers. This meant I had to cut those parts out of what I filmed and make tight shots of each image. This definitely calls for more props now that I need to make more screen time.

Filming pt 2

Hey guys! It is day 2 of filming and I realized that I am going to need to make more props to include in the video. With what I have now, I will not have enough for two minutes, unless each prop gets more screen time which is something I do not want to do. I would rather create too many props and cuts some out rather than making the video seem as if it was last minute or not well thought out.

Filming

Today I started filming my opening! I put all of my props and taped them to the wall and got my lamp with the red cloth and started playing around with the lighting until I found the angle that looked best on camera. I shot about 30 seconds of it. I took longer clips of each segment (each segment being a polaroid or a piece of paper) so that when I edit it later I can cut whatever I need out.