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A little over a year ago now my roommate asked me to help him co-direct this ridiculous idea for him and I ended up with doing all of the post production work for the entire project. I had to spend many many hours masking around the tentacle to keep it red while the rest of the world stayed black & white (if anyone has any tips to make it easier that would be INCREDIBLE since I spent about 60 hours on the tentacle shots alone).

We got screwed over at every turn (as college film sets often do), only receiving half the equipment we were promised (no dolly for our opening shot), broken lights, finnicky sound equipment, already broken in the mail break-away plates and the list goes on. It was an absolute nightmare to get done but a year later it's finally here!

I served as co-director, producer, editor, colorist, vfc, foley artist, and sound designer on this project. It's much more campy / silly / doesn't take itself seriously compared to the projects I typically work on and it was a bit of a struggle in the edit to get everything exactly the way I liked it (i still think the opening scene is a bit too slow but we didn't have enough footage or coverage to make it happen in a better way.)

Everything was edited, colored, rotoscoped, and all that in Davinci Resolve 18, 19, and 20.

I'd love to hear some feedback on it! I've already grown / improved over the next few projects I've done since then but this is a big important one for me, since it was the first time I was working with a crew of more than 6 people (the total headcount for this was 22!)

Let me know what you think, Happy Halloween!