This is the Typeface Development which includes the title and credit ideas for the project, this is entirely made by Maxine and Shannon.
Title ideas:
Silent whisper
Silent stalker
Dark secrets
The haunting shadow
Whispers in the dark
In the shadows
Sinister Lurker
The night's prey
Dark pursuits
Veil of fear
Silent terror
Lurking shadows
Behind the shadows
Typeface ideas:
Thinker (capcut)
Thinker-RG (capcut)
Relax (capcut)
Ravenly (capcut)
Merchande-Rgh (capcut)
Sticky (capcut)
IM FELL (capcut
Reflection : Our team members Maxine and Shannon made this blogpost which shows which fonts should be used within our film so that the audience would receive the message of that font being terrifying or giving off fear towards the audience.
This is the Behind the Scenes for this term's group project. Kenneth will be doing the behind the scenes however, we forgot so our team member Maxine did all the behind the scenes within filming.
Director: Max, Shannon
Cast: Max, Kenneth, Bams
Production company: Regents Media Production
Editor: Kenneth
Mise-en-Scene manager: Max, Bams
Reflection : Our team member Maxine didn't take that much images for behind the scenes due to the bad weather making it a bit hard to take extra images to see how the filming is going. Overall, the behind the scenes images were taken clearly on what the team is doing.
Kenneth uses Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects 2025 for the editing of this project.
He began editing as soon as we finished shooting. Initially, he started off in After Effects, where he color graded the raw footages to look like nighttime.
before
after
He found this Youtube video explaining the process, and it really helped a lot. Though, he ended up tweaking the little details of the color grading settings to achieve a result of my liking.
He also experimented with light leaks, which he had planned to apply on some shots.
he again made use of a Youtube video explaining the process of achieving this
But shortly after, he found out that putting it against a black background makes for a really unique shot, much better than putting it straight above the shots. So, he decided to use this for the first few seconds into the opening credits of the movie intro. he chose a simple fade animation for the credit texts.
Moving on to Premiere Pro, he placed all the dark version shots that he wanted to use for this movie intro, and aligned them in order on the timeline.
Then, he added vignettes to all the shots and made some more changes to the color grading, which in the end improved the look of the shots and make them feel more cinematic.
At first, he had the idea of having voiceover throughout the movie intro, as if a mind-reading machine is being used to enter the mind of the killer, in hopes of finding the truth behind the murder. And we as the audience watches through the POV of the machine entering the mind. He even went on to create a wormhole on After Effects, which he had planned to use at the very beginning of the intro, when the device enters the killer's mind for the first time.
This is thanks to a Youtube video tutorial he found at the time.
But after discussing with my team members, we decided to drop this idea, since the mind reading device plot doesn't suit horror that well, and leans more into sci-fi.
Meanwhile, choosing the right audio was also quite a challenge. he initially had footstep sounds play at the first few seconds of the intro, then followed by a swoosh sound as the wormhole plays. But, dropping the mind-reading device plot meant choosing a different set of audio as well.
Picking and rearranging shots on the timeline was also a back-and-forth task, with new ideas cancelling the previous arrangement. But in the end, he found the arrangement of shots that he loved and sticked with that.
Finally, Kenneth opted for a creepy-sounding music to play throughout the whole intro, and he found the perfect one to do just that. He used this music as a base for the timing of the transitions between shots.
So far he used several moon stock videos at some points of the intro, which he really loved. But halfway through the editing process, my media teacher reviewed the edit and told me to not use stock footages, so he removed the moon shots and opted for our own shots of lighterinstead.
The rest of the editing process went smooth from then on, and most of the clips were arranged based on the beat of the audio he chose for this intro.
There's one particular clip that he put extra work on, which is this shot below.
The silhouette of the killer behind the main character is actually fake. It's an image that he tracked into the shot using the "3D Camera Tracker" feature available in After Effects. The addition of the silhouette isn't perfect, since it is static, but it definitely helped intensifies this last scene of the movie intro.
Meanwhile, for the main title animation, he initially considered going for a bluish theme.
But at this point, my teammates suggested me to change the font to a scratchier hand-written style to further enhance the horror feel. And with a different font in use, he ended up changing the main title animation as well, to this blood-dripping style from the Youtube video below.
End result, with new font and animation.
Reflection : Our team member Kenneth edited fully with all the footage although, in the beginning he used multiple stock footages taken from YouTube which was not allowed therefore, in the future he changed it into footages that we took when were at the location filming. When he changed it, his editing skills greatly improved.
This is our Dominant Reading, our team member Shannon made this blog entirely.
List
Our intended
Dominant Reading
How we will achieve this with technical elements
Individuals
Greg, Kenneth, Max
Kenneth = a paranoid teenager
Greg = Kenneth's good friend, mindful of his surroundings
Max = careless, ignorant teenager
Kenneth
Mise en scene: The actor constantly looks at his surroundings and whatever's around him.
Camera: There is a close up of his concerned expression. There are also medium shots of his concerned body language. The camera pans from Kenneth to what he is looking at.
Editing: Multiple cuts of different camera angles. There is also an eyeline match of kenneth looking to his surroundings
Sound: Diegetic sounds of rustling leaves and footsteps of the stalker.
Greg
Mise en scene: The actor performance contained looking for his friend (kenneth) when he disappeared
Camera: There is a tracking shot of him trying to follow Kenneth's tracks. Medium shots of his body language turning around to find Kenneth.
Editing: Multiple cuts of different camera angles. There is also a reaction shot of his worried face and Kenneth's “blood”.
Sound: Diegetic sounds of the actor’s dialogue contained words that worried about Kenneth after he disappeared.
Max
Mise en scene: The actress carries headphones and has her emotionless expression when the camera focuses on her.
Camera: There are close up shots of her expressions that show that she doesn’t really care.
Social group
Teenagers
Teenagers should not be left alone without adult supervision.
There are multiple camera angles / close up shots of the paranoia of the teenagers. There is a tracking shot scene where Kenneth gets killed. The body language of both Greg and Kenneth are shaky and scared.
Places
Forest
Forests are a bad place to hangout.
There will be low key lighting that’s used to present the place. Many bushes and leaves will be used that hides hidden cameras that makes the scene unsafe for the characters and the audience. Discordant non diegetic sounds will be used.
Events
Murder
Murder is bad / traumatic.
There is a medium shot of Greg worried for kenneth. There is blood in some scenes and the color red on blood is a semantic code for death, anger, etc.
Overall Message
Teenagers shouldn’t be left alone in the forest because tragedies may happen as a result of murder.
How similar is it to the statement of intent ?
I think this is almost 90% similar to our statement of intent like the name of the characters and location is exactly the same taking place in a forest. However, we changed the storyline from a bunch of detective to a bunch of reckless teenagers who are left alone in the forest hanging out which changes the overall message / the dominant reading to the social group.
Reflection : Our team member Shannon made the dominant reading which gave us an idea on what the audience should perceive on our message from our film.
👾This is the blog post that shows on what tech or applications used ( with screenshots ), how it helps and what systems did we use to do this 👾
To communicate with the group members : WhatsApp
To download & store footage :
Google Drive
To edit the footage & organizing the footage within the application :
After Effects 2025
How Does it Help?
- It helped with sharing the files to others so, instead of one person that only has the access to the footage, everyone in our group has the access to the shared file this minimizes more work with exporting through communication apps such as WhatsApp as the app reduces the resolution and quality of the video which ruins the whole immersive aspect of the film opening. In addition to that, our editors used After Effects the latest version which has more features such as the CGI as we have an idea of using CGI although, it may look off that is why we are still figuring out the editing process with the editor to make the audience feel immersive and more realistic and since it is the latest version of the editing software, there may be less glitches or bugs during editing which can ruin the edited footage because technology improves overtime. We also used WhatsApp to show the part where the editor is finished with the video so we can see segments of the video so we can make less mistakes instead of showing the full clip and finding it all in one that way, we also used that app to communicate when and where do we group up and shoot and we talked about other important things within that app.
Reflection : I made this blogpost which shows how we organized our footage which made it easier for compiling footage, and make it easier for other team members to comment which footage should be kept or removed for the editing process and how other software such as WhatsApp helped with our communication together.
This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson with my partner on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but we edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post.
Why is continuity editing important?
Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.
Different types of continuity edit
Straight cut (cut)
Eyeline match
Shot /reverse shot
Cutaway / Insert
*Match cut
Footage
Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic.
My Editing Process (CapCut)👻
My first attempt were with quite some errors. Here is how we fixed the errors by cutting to the exact time when the actor moves with the right hand tucked, we match the next clip the same thing so it doesn't look weird to the audience.
Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because the continuation between each clips is more seamless and we did more cuts with extra clips to make it seem more cinematic. There was a clip where the actor was supposed to move to the right inside of the left when exiting out of the room so, it made a bit off for the continuation of the clips although, overall together it is more realistic and the cuts are better than the previous.
Reflection ; This tutorial can help us in the project with fixing simple problems such as minor mistakes ( continuity error in editing ) which can impact the whole realism of the whole project, the biggest challenge on editing is trying to see which clips match with the last and the next clip so that the cuts will be seamless without any weird or glitchy movements, we can improve my editing next time by watching YouTube tutorials or learning new features within the editing software to widen my whole knowledge about editing.
Lesson Description : My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre which was the Horror genre. Our task was to recreate the Jennifer's Body specifically at the school corridor scene...
Original Scene ;
Our Scene ;
Problem :
1. The camera was sometimes shaky in the middle of recording due to constant imperfections within the camera angle or movement which can make some scenes with no sense and context ( character wasn't in the camera angle thus, talking to nobody or the camera movement was too far from the characters to be seen clearly )
2. Lip-syncing to the original audio was a bit abnormal due to the characters while recording can be either nervous, embarrassed or not good at acting for the sound to be synced to the audio.
Solution :
1. We could possibly use a stabilizer or a tripod for the recording part to prevent
shake or weird angles within the recording session.
2. Retake many shots to see if we can perfect it the original audio or get actors that are good at acting like doing a Screen Test with various actors we picked out that could be good within the context of our video to prevent weird lip-syncing to the audio.
Next time :
1. Most likely practice for the camera stillness because, purchasing a stabilizer or a tripod can be too far out of our current budget and we might need another cameraman that has a stable arm just incase for the camera movement.
2. Remember to take as many shots as possible to have a higher possibility that the lip-syncing wouldn't be as abnormal or off-synced.
Reflection : This horror scene recreation helped our team to have an idea on how to film certain camera angles or character dialogues. It also helps us give solutions and how next time we could fix it possibly in future projects that will be made.
IM FELL (capcut
