Thought on Xtranormal

The first thing I noticed about trying to use Xtranormal to explain my project was how flippant I wanted to be. It's so easy to make the characters do goofy or outlandish things, and the voices are fairly robotic, so there's a temptation to just make the scene comedic. And at the same time I have to use it to explain a pretty somber choice of topic. I changed the voice of the woman who explains the project to a British accent, because it seemed to lend what she was saying a little more weight. I also noticed that using two characters essentially made me feel like I was already defending my choice of topic; I had to have the female explain that she was aware that she had chosen something that was going to be a sad thing to look into in many ways. I chose the black and white setting because it was the most serious setting, and obviously this is going to be a project that has some grave tones to it.