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After reviewing our feedback, we decided to revise our film and change our source music of the song "Payphone". In our original film, the song "Payphone" by Maroon 5 was playing in our first scene and when Sarah Facetime's Ally, the song immediately stopped playing. My group and I noticed we made this mistake by turning off the music when Sarah called in our next scene. As a group, we decided to fix this by showing Ally stop the music when Sarah Facetime's Ally. In our original film, we didn't show Ally stop the music, so in our updated film, we plan on having the camera angle down and show Ally stop playing the song on her computer.

After reviewing our feedback, we decided to revise our film and change the sound of the scene where Ally and Ashley wake up and have a conversation in the morning. In our feedback, we were told that nobody could hear what the actors were saying, which was an important factor in our film. In this scene, Ally and Ashley look at the time and say how Sarah is supposed to be at Ally's house soon. If the audience could not understand or hear this conversation, they are missing a key scene in our film. To change this, we decided to re-film this specific scene and have our camera closer to the actresses and have them talk louder, so the audience can better understand the dialogue. In doing this, we have to make sure the actresses say their lines word-for-word since we already created our script and would not like to have to change it.

After reviewing our feedback, we decided to revise our film and change Patty's appearance by changing her wardrobe. In our original film, Patty was seen as somewhat scary and suspicious, but not as intense as we would have liked her too. Patty was wearing a grey t-shirt and green leggings, so she looked as if she wasn't a creepy stalker obsessed with Ally. To change this, we decided as a group to have Ally wear all black. This would include her to wear black leggings and a black hoodie to make her seem more suspicious, creepy and intense. For our original version of our film, we planned on having Patty wear dark makeup to add to her character, to make her look mysterious and suspicious. Unfortunately, we did not have the resources to do this and decided to not include the makeup. So, as a group, we decided we needed to revise our decision of the makeup and need to include it. We plan to use dark makeup colors, such as black, dark purple, and a navy blue to contribute to her cha...

After reviewing our feedback from our class, we all decided to revise our film. One comment we received was that we executed our plot and genre well and was easily understood. They felt that our film was creepy and scary, which is what we are aiming for. Another comment we received, which we had a lot of, was our camera shots and angles were executed properly. Most of our feedback included the good use of our shots and angles, which we came to the conclusion to not change and keep all of our shots and angles the way they are. Other comments we received were about our music and location. The creepy and scary music we used when Patty was entering Ally's house created a creepy and suspenseful effect for the audience which is what we were going for. We also had comments about our location and how the audience could understand the sense of Ally's house (beautiful and spacious) and Patty's house (run-down, raggedy). Along with all of our positive feedback, we also received constr...

     We conveyed our genre, horror/thriller, through our camera shots, angles, and sounds. The first shot in our film was an establishing shot which shows the main setting of our film. We are trying to establish the major contrast between the two houses; which further reflects Ally's life (as a rich teenager) and Patty's life (poor, unsanitary, and lonely). The next shot we decided to use was an over the shoulder shot when Ally and Ashley are getting ready for their fun day and Sarah calls Ally because she is at her house. This shot establishes that all three friends will be hanging out that day and that Sarah is already at Ally's house. We also decided to include a point of view shot showing Ally seeing Patty for the first time since she just moved in. In this shit, we were trying to establish where Patty was standing and what she was doing when the girls saw her. An important camera angle we utilized in our film was a high angle showing Patty laying on Al...