Editing Update: Rough Cut #2

    At this time, the post-production phase is roughly 80% done, with all of the shots filmed and strung together, all that's left to incorporate are the on-screen credit texts and add the remaining parts of the narration once I've recorded them. I've made the decision to make the entire clip in a gray-scale black and white with an amount of film grain added in order to further embody that more desolate and pessimistic tone that film noir's often embody. Whilst the props composed of modern-era tech, the filter also is meant as a callback to the more primitive era of film where the noir genre coined all of its most notable conventions. The choice to add this filter to the opening sequence was also fueled by a need to create contrast in the visuals, and to obscure some of the more horror-adjacent factors of the in-room scenes. Overall, the post-production process of this project has been quite smooth. The editing process has been defined by creative freedom, and that's something I find very enjoyable. Going forward, I will need to record all of the narrative voice lines remaining and add them in a way that's in-sync and meshes well with the rest of the sound-design of the opening sequence. Finally, I'll have to figure out a way to include crediting text in an organic and natural feeling way so that the viewer's attention is never drawn away from the scene by it, and it instead acts as a subtle complement.