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Above is the final cut of our film opener.

  For our class, we were tasked with making a "sneak peek" of the first 30~ seconds of our opening, and ask for any feedback on the quality of the opening, like font choice, color grading, clip length, etcetera. After showing our sneak peek, we got high praise from the class on our lighting techniques and pacing, as well as the contrast between the garage scene and the park scene. There were a few pieces of feedback however, and it was centered around the text displayed on screen and the sound effects.  Many people had an issue reading the "Directed by: Nicolas Gutierrez" text at the start of the park scene, due to the low contrast between the text and the light background. To rectify this, we increased the drop shadow on the text, and added a small outline to the bottom of the text, to increase its readability. During many of the scenes we filmed, there was a lot of extra sound in the space we filmed, leading to the natural foley we planned on using becoming obsole...

 While shooting the opening, we encountered several problems, and this blog will describe how we dealt with those. The first problem we encountered was actually weather-related. First of all, we planned for the park to be sunny while we filmed, to create contrast between the garage scenes and the park scene. However, as we were finishing up the last couple of shots at the park, it started raining pretty badly, which put the equipment at risk of being damaged, so we had to quickly pack up and wait under a pavilion for about 10 minutes. This put us further behind schedule, as we were already behind from our kidnapper William running almost an hour late. However, we wanted to keep filming as to not take too long filming at the park, so we took an umbrella from the car and kept filming. Luckily, the shot we got had a lot of tree cover, so it's not very noticeable on video.   This photo here is from the garage scene, where the girl is writing in her diary. This shot took a long tim...