Editing evidences of the Cursed

Evaluation- what we learnt
From collecting any editing evidences that proves we were editing our film, we were able to talk to each other about what we hope to achieve and what we like to get done. There were more days whereby we did edit in school but we did not have any evidences to prove that we were editing our film. So, what we learnt from this task, is that when we should make sure we evidence our editing to show that everyone in the group was co-operating. Despite this, everyone in the group knew what stage we were in the editing process thus giving us all a chance of what we would like to do.

Music research

During our editing process as well as before, we had some difficulties of finding the perfect music for our teaser trailer. But, we found this collection of sounds that we hope to incorporate in our teaser trailer. This is the list of songs we picked

Music research for Sinner Productions

Evaluation- what we learnt
From this music evaluation, we learnt the importance of sound and how that helps to give a certain feeling when the audience watches it. We also learnt the diversity of sounds and this research gave us a better, clearer understanding of what exactly atmosphere we want to prevail in our teaser trailer.

Official Extras of The Cursed

Evaluation- what we learnt
From making this 'official extras video' of our film, we realised the importance of us not incorporating Jane's(Mingma's) eye in our teaser trailer. The reason why we realised this afterwards is that the ideas we had in our teaser trailer was enough as it is and incorporating Jane's(Mingma's) eye in our teaser trailer would complicate things to the audience and they wouldn't understand the narrative as much. Plus, if we included Jane's(Mingma's) eye in our teaser trailer then this could possibly make the audience think is everything that is happening in her imagination or does she perceive that to be her reality? So, we don't want our audience to have thought-provoking thoughts that might disrupt them from fully understanding the narrative of our teaser trailer. So, what we learnt from making this video is that 'Extras' are not used only for the purpose of extras scenes of scenes that have already been shown in the film but other scenes with different meanings and we also realised the importance of making the audience understand our narrative which was a weakness for us last year.

Bloopers for the Cursed

We decided to make an official Bloopers video of our film 'The Cursed' to show the journey we embarked whilst making our film.



Evaluation- what we learnt
Throughout making the film 'The Cursed', we valued the importance of team-work and co-operation. If we did not work as effectively as we did, we wouldn't be able to finishing taking the shots of the 'Cursed' on our allocated time as well as before the deadline.

Production company ident

1st Production Intro 

This production intro gives an eerie feeling which matches the genre of our trailer. The effect at the end also adds to the sinister theme. However, we thought that it doesn’t look professional and is very simple. The duration and pace of the effect was very fast hence why it was difficult to read the title of the production. We have decided to not use this production intro.

2nd Production Intro 

This intro has an inter textual reference to Albert Hitchcock’s film ‘The Birds’. Although it has a link to the most respected horror genre director, it has very little link to our trailer and its trailer. Hence, we have decided to not use this production intro for our trailer.

3rd Production Intro ( Final)

This is the last and final production intro, which we created. The effect in this intro is very unique and professional. The blood connotes danger and perhaps death, which is associated with the genre of horror. We have finalised this production intro for our trailer.

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Fifth day of filming

Evaluation- what we learned
On Friday the 9th December 2016, we decided to film the last scene whereby it is the chanting scene as well as a scene of when Mingma is meant to be sitting on the tree. The reason why we didn't film these particular scenes on the fourth day of filming is because we didn't have enough time to film those scenes and we didn't have enough people to be filmed in the chanting scene. Luckily, the director of the film, Naima, got one of our friends to be part of the chanting scene as well as Naima and Mingma being part of the chanting scene also. The sheer fact that we got members of the Cursed team to be part of the chanting team alongside with a friend gave us greater flexibility and we did not need to rely on people to come be part of the chanting scene. So, the lesson we gained from this is to make sure we try to solve any threats as when Mingma had to go up the tree we had difficulties taking her up the tree so maybe we should have had a back up plan whereby we would know what to do if any problems would occur. Despite these problems, we were able to get our final shots done to a sufficient level which will then be part of the our editing process.