I love analog horror! I love it. It's the latest "thing" when it comes to horror trends on Youtube, which, is a lot. From the Walten Files to Local28, there has been a lot of free horror out there which take the theme of "old technology" and increases the scariness to major levels. It'd take a while to explain the ins and outs of each series, but the appeal is universal: Weird, static overlays combined with unnerving sounds and barely visible or audible details underlaid underneath spooky VHS or security camera visuals. When I did the Podcast project (a WHILE ago) I certainly tried to aim for an analog horror feel there as well, though my audio mastery has definitely picked up since then. Hopefully. In any case, editing this was a real task to do.
1: Overlays Luckily, Final Cut Pro came through with a bit of creativity. A lot of its transitions or generators can be toggled about with options, and with enough enterprising spirit, a simple "stripes" overlay very quickly becomes a flash of static in strange technicolor. The security overlay was the most useful, and only required minimal touchup before that was in working order, certainly. 2: Audio The audio was killer here. I had to record a lot of still sounds and borrow plenty from free sites myself. Final Cut Pro came in killer again here, as it had a perfect static overlay to any audio which decreased the quality, but I still had to do a lot. If you open the files up in Final Cut Pro, you will discover a LOT of effects and audio overlay for extremely brief sections. A whole lot of work went into that, and I'm glad the final result paid off. Overall, this project was my favorite to work on by far out of anything I've ever done in this class. Getting to work with minimal live action footage, good audio, all in a short timeframe really was the best of every world I could imagine.
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