3rd Quarter Submission

For our third quarter submission, we changed a lot from our original one. The entire first scene at the mall was re shot because the pacing of the first one was way too fast and the stalker was not present much at all. We took longer shots to slow the pace down since there is not much action happening in this part of the film. We also made the stalker appear more in the re shot and also included more scenes of all the actual characters. This creates more realism since in the original you didn't get to see much of the characters until we get to the house. Most of the next scene at the house was kept exactly the same as the first submission but we added incidental music to the scene with Lily and the stalker. This creates more suspense than the original one and keep the audience on the edge of their seat.

Girls Night Revision #3- Incidental Music

For our third revision, we decided to add incidental music to the end of our film to add suspense and make the scene even more frightening. The music was added to the part where Lily is walking out to her car and the stalker is shown walking up to her without her knowing. This gets the audience on the end of their seat waiting to see what is going to happen next. In the first edit of our film, we only had atmospheric sound. This was boring and wasn't interesting enough to captivate an audience. The addition of the music also increases the pace of the film just like a traditional horror movie does. By adding the incidental music our film seems more like a professionally done film. After finding the clip of the scary music titled "Fear", we put it into Premiere Pro and added it to the very end of our film.

Girls Night Revision #2- Titles

After we re-filmed the opening scene, we decided to change the font and the color of our texts. We did all of this in the app called Premiere Pro. Our original titles were a plain font that didn't stand out much. We added effects to make the title pop. Now instead of a plain bold font, we made it cursive and added the effect of it popping onto the screen and then disappearing. As its disappearing, the font grows. This emphasizes the title and leads into the next titles of our names. In our original post, the fonts were red. We thought this would emphasize the names but the red did not look as nice as white. We also added effects to our names that were similar to the one we did for our title. The names appear on the screen in the bottom third of the screen and then it flashes to the next name as the next person appears on the screen.

Distribution Plan

By researching different movies I found lots of different ways to distribute films. I would of course start out with the traditional ways of distribution such as finding a successful sales agent to represent my film in festivals. I would also make at least two trailers of the movie to attract attention and to keep the audience updated and more excited about the upcoming release date. After the release of my film, I would try and get it on major streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. By doing this,  I would need to refine my pitch of the film before even finding a distributor. I would the find a distributor or an aggregator and they would then pitch it to Netflix or turn my film away. After hopefully getting pitched to Netflix, I would then wait for a response and hope to get accepted by them. By successfully making it on to Netflix, I can reach out to a broader audience and this attracts even more attention to the film.

Girls Night Revision #1- Re-shoot

For our first revision we decided to do a re shoot at the mall. We did this to add more scenes of the hooded figure to help add suspense to the beginning of the film. We also added more over-the-shoulder to shots to also build suspense and to keep the figure a mystery. Although the scene is suspenseful, we wanted it to be more slow moving since none of the real action is taking place yet. We did this by making the takes longer instead of short and choppy like our first few takes were. We also each got more film time because of the help of an actor used for the hooded figure. I was one of the main actors in these scenes to make it seem like the actors in the film are switching out to film even though they are.

Distribution Research- IT

"IT" is a mystery/horror film from 2017. The genre is similar to ours since we include comedic, mystery, and horror elements in it. Th dialogue includes humor even though there is the horror element which is very similar to our film. It follows a group of teenagers throughout the entire movie which is similar to my movie. Many trailers were released to attract the attention of the target audience. "IT" the film is also based off of the book by Stephen King so many people were already interested in the film. The DVD was available for pre-order weeks before the release because this was around Christmas time. The DVD release date was January 9th, 2019 and was available on many streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video, VUDU, and Hulu. The teenagers who acted in the film also posted many trailer links, and small clips from the movie on their social media accounts to attract more attention to the film.

Distribution Research- The Edge of Seventeen

"The Edge of Seventeen" is a drama/comedy film released in 2016. This movie and my movie have a very similar target audience of teens since they both include teens as their main characters. They both include humor that teens will enjoy even though "The Edge of Seventeen" has more elevated and adult language. Two trailers were released beforehand to attract the attention of the target audience. The main characters in the movie such as Hailee Steinfeld posted links to the trailers on her social media to make sure people knew about the movie and when it was coming out. This movie was released on November 18, 2016. The DVD version of the movie was then released February 14, 2017. The film was distributed by STX Entertainment which is a leading and fast-growing entertainment company. Soon after its release, the film became available on Netflix, Prime Video, and VUMU which are all popular streaming services.