This week I already collect all the footages and compositted them, so I just to need to put them together and edit them. Then I will try to add more sound effects.
Thanks to my previous project files in layout production, I only had to replace these shots separately in the first step. In addition, I specifically mentioned to my collaborators that it would be best to add an extra second to each shot before and after the time indicated on my layouts, so that we all had more time to edit. The advantage of this is that when I need to do a lot of transition effects for example, sometimes the time before and after is not long enough to cause the transition effects are not fully displayed, if there is an extra second this problem will be largely avoided.
Next I did more transition effects on it, for example, between the very first title and the first scene shot, I wanted to make the transition between them more natural, so I noticed that the title shot had some smoke effects. I then found a footage of the smoke rising and dispersing and placed them in the middle of the two shots, then adjusted the overlay to multiply and then adjusted the transparency. This gave me a nice transition effect at the beginning, which made it look more natural.
Besides, most of the transitions were made up of simple zoom in and zoom out and other basic camera movements with some camera shake or shutter angle and blur effects, because I didn’t want to make the whole film look too complicated.
Finally, I added some ambient sounds, such as the ticking sound of the hands turning faster and faster, and in the last shot when the character’s flashlight light shines on the monster, the faint sound of breathing on the monster. And with the monster’s eyes open, this breathing sound becomes more and more obvious, these small details will make the whole film more rich.