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 I resourced through YouTube's large amount of non copyright music and selected out whatever suit our film the best.  The starting ambient/calming music was " Filaments by Scott Buckley "  The following eerier sound was " Dark Tension Rising by Mattia Cupelli " 

This was the overall sequence of the audio This was the equalizer graph for the phone on the ground dialogue scene. Again the overall timeline for the project indicating all dialogues and sound tracks.  A1 and A2 are just dialogues whereas A3 - A6 is music and additional ambient sounds  For the mother speaking scene i decided to pan out the sound in the direction of where she was standing. This is the noise reduction settings for the removal of extra background noises. I also used dialogue leveler to ensure clarity in the dialogues This was the overall equalizer for the dialouges  

 When I received the final edit from Mishel, I noticed that even after changing our lens the footage still had grain on the darker exterior scenes. I started by desaturating the clips as they were awfully orange and bright.  Another issue we faced was the grain issue. Using the custom mixer effect and increasing the blend color input and i changed the blend to multiply layering so it blends in perfectly and reduces the grain by alot. I also changed the color space and gamma to Rec 709 and Rec 709-A respectively. 

  Azka Amir (friend 1) Mahira Ibrahim (Main character)  Aliza (friend 2) Hussain Rizvi (kidnapper)

In the production process, I helped out by acting in it and overall smaller roles  

 Here is the storyboard, our director Mahira, made that we are using to outline the scenes for the film.

 This is the final moodboard for our final film called "Eclipse".

 After putting hours and hours of work into the production and sound editing, we showed our sir the final project and he ended up telling us we weren't going to get a grade higher than a C and suggested to reshoot the entire film again or create a new film. This was definitely not what we had in mind and set us back months of progress. Not giving up, we decided to work on a whole new story and this time make it worth it and impactful in the little time we had. 

 I had received the final edit from Mishel and I started working on the color grading. One of the biggest issues I faced was fixing the grain in the footage and making it more clear. Upon watching multiple YouTube videos to take help it was of no use and the footage remained blurry. I ended up fixing just the overly orange tone of the clips.   

Even before I received the final edit from Mishel, I began searching for the right background music for our film and watching multiple tutorials on how to edit sound and played around with the options in Davinci Resolve. 

We began shooting and quickly encountered some great issues. After putting all the clips together we realized that the film did not not turn out how we hoped it would. All though the clips looked good separately, editing the clips together made it looked very unput together. Another thing was that we were one character short in the film so I decided to partake in the role of acting aswell.     To help us resolve these issues, we called over a friend of ours who was experienced in the filming field and helped us overtake many challenges that we initially faced. Hopefully by our next shoot we can improve significantly. 

 Due to the changes in the story, it required changes in the moodboard and storyboard as well. Mishel Ali made the moodboard and Mahira Ibrahim, as the director made the storyboard. The pictures taken are from google and pinterest. \

 I havent posted in a while but we decided to entirely change up the story as the initial one wasn't upto our vision. We decided to film a short horror story. The locations are simple and the idea is overall more solid as the cliffhanger is interesting. Down below is the new script for our story.