Short Film Pitch

God is Near, the Devil is Here

CATHERINE stands outside the BRADING’S mansion. She takes pictures of her surrounding area.  MRS. BRADING walks up to Catherine, she thanks Catherine for taking care of everything while she goes off to her trip. She tells Catherine to keep a close eye on BLAIR. Mrs. Brading drives off. Catherine enters the house, and yells hello.  She closes the door and turns around to find Blair. Blair says boo. Catherine gasps and tells Blair not to do that again.  Blair apologizes and hugs Catherine. She says she misses her. Catherine hugs her back and they talk briefly about recent events.  Blair excuses herself, claiming she has a lot of studying to do.  Catherine yells after her, expecting to finish the conversation with her cousin.

Catherine runs outside to tell her aunt a final goodbye.  As she reaches the drive way her aunt is pulling off and yells to Catherine to have a great time with her cousin.  Catherine asks for her aunt to wait but she’s too late.  Catherine turns back at the house with excitement.  She walks back in to unpack and get settled. Catherine whispers to herself that this is going to be a good weekend with her long lost cousin.

Day 2: Catherine awakes to Blair standing beside the bed. Blair whispers she’s hungry and Catherine offers to fix her breakfast. Blair just smiles and run down the long hallway of the mansion. Catherine walks into the kitchen and begin to prepare breakfast.  She hear a loud boom and walk toward the hallway to see what it was. She looks toward Blair’s room and Blair is just standing at the end of the hallway with her back facing Catherine.  Catherine walks up to Blair and asks her what’s wrong.

Cut to Day 3: Catherine awakes at 3 am, she’s sweating heavily.  She rises up and jumps out of bed to get a glass of water. On her way to the kitchen she hear a mumbling sound. She ignores it.  Catherine then proceeds to the kitchen. She pours a glass of water while she’s gulping down the water then she hear singing.  She calls out Blair’s name.  Then the singing turns to laughing.  As she puts back the water container and close the refrigerator, Blair is standing there.  Blair screams in agony.

Cut to Day 4: MORNING

Catherine is sitting in the living room having a conversation about Blair on her cell phone. The friends advise her to reach out to Blair’s mother and tell her about the odd behavior that has been going on.  Catherine hangs up with her friends and tries to call Blair’s mom. The phone is disconnected… Catherine panics, and calls over and over again.  Fortunately, Catherine receives a call from her boyfriend and he asks if he can come over.  Catherine agrees and begs him to keep his promise about coming over to visit her.

Day 4: NIGHT

Dylan pulls in the driveway, he gets out, and ring the doorbell. He rings the doorbell again… He rings the doorbell again. Finally, Catherine comes to the door exasperated.  She pulls Dylan in and asks him silently for help.  He then asks what’s wrong. She begs him not to speak out of fear that Blair is going to hear them. Not only Blair, but HAYTEE. Catherine asks Dylan to follow her to Blair’s room. He stops midway when he hear Blair scream out with a masculine voice. Catherine begs him to follow her, and he does. They enter the room and it is pitch black. The temperature is below freezing. They follow closely behind each other, and pause midway into the room. Blair is standing there with her white gown and blood all over it. She’s holding a kitchen knife chanting demonic words. Blair begins to laugh and Catherine and Dylan run out of the room headed for the front door. Objects are now moving in the house, Blair is chasing after them. They stop to hide, scared and panicking. Blair is no longer loud. The house goes quiet. Dylan gets up and something pulls him away quickly. He calls for Catherine. Catherine gets up and heads for the door. Blair is standing there at the door. Waiting…

Cut to darkness.

Profile Interview Author’s Statement

We chose to interview the Drakes because their fraternity exemplified the true meaning of brotherhood. We hoped to convey to the viewers that there’s more to a fraternity than parties and “looking” cool.  A fraternity is centered around brotherhood and the uplifting of others in your community.  Choosing to interview such an influential person on the Austin College campus was the best decision we as the interviewers could have made due to the fact that we were able to get out a message to the public.

When editing the project we had to take into consideration how the audience would feel and how the interviewees would feel about our editing process. So we chose images and music that would support our message rather than stray the audience from the true meaning of the film.  Images and music that are incorporated are solely of the house and the fraternity brothers because we wanted to keep our central theme of brotherhood. In order to keep Austin front and center, majority of the video is of him.  Also to keep our central theme prevalent majority of editing techniques are based on brotherhood.

Our interview was a huge success because we were able to get all of our interview questions answered and also additional information.  We don’t believe our interview could have gone any smoother, it was what we wanted and more.  The setting was perfect and the attitudes of the interviewees were perfect.  The Drake Fraternity was the best choice for us because we wanted to get the message out about the importance of brotherhood.

Screencast Project

Script: 

Hello, I am Mariah Steward and today I will be explaining how to edit a clip to your liking.

By that I mean manipulating color, lighting, saturation, brightness, and exposure.

These are the different tools that allow you to manipulate each thing.

Here I am changing exposure, you can match color, you can change the white balance by turning it on here.

If you would like to crop the visual, you will click here. Once framed, click yes to crop your video.

Here is a filter tool that you can use to change the filter of your video.  There are different options. I chose vintage.

Here is your audio tool that will allow you to change volume, pitch, and add effects to your audio.

Now I am just clicking through the tools one last time for you guys.

You can change the exposure, brightness, and saturation.

Well guys, that is how you modify your video by using these tools to enhance color/lighting.

Thank you, goodbye.