Audience Feedback

At the beginning of this week, our groups were given feedback about the first draft of our film opening. Our audience gave us constructive feedback which we will use in order to make our film more successful. Some of the key ideas that we were given were:

• To make sure that our location shots (the tracking of the empty corridors) are longer - they seemed to flash and confuse the audience as opposed to set the scene of the school.
• To get rid of the mirror scene in which the protagonist talks to her self; the audience thought that it was too cheesy and took away from the suspence of the film - it looked comedic.
• To make sure that our titles match our film genre and plot - we didn't manage to finish editing those before we uploaded our rough cut.
• To overlay the sound throughout the clip - the sudden stop of the soundtrack makes the film look choppy.
• To overlay the sound at the end of the film (when the title is displayed) - the soundtrack isn't merged and appears choppy.
• To make sure that we include our distributors and production companies - we were lacking those, resulting in an unprofessional clip.
• To work on the typography of the title - the bright red font of the title makes it stand out too much and makes the film seem childish.

 

Overall, we received mostly positive feedback, however we found that the constructive criticism will help us in order to make the film more successful.

Red Marks Rough Cut

Story Boards

And More Sound Research...

Grace and I were in search of soundtracks that we could use for our opening but we came across many restrictions such as confirming permission and contacting the owner from sources such as YouTube. The idea of using copyright free music and sounds from other resources were available so I looked up several websites and came across http://www.freesound.org/ and found a suitable soundtrack that goes well with whats happening in our opening. There were many problems using and accessing the music as terms and conditions were needed to be clear but by reading and understanding the licenses it was evident that we can use it for educational purposes.

This is the soundtrack that I think will be useful for our opening and we intend to use: http://www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3158/

Sound Research

Amani and I were given the task to find the music for our opening. We went on various different websites including soundbible.com, smartsound.com but none of these had what we thought would work for our opening. To use this music I had to contact the person who had uploaded this to Youtube and ask for their permission. Hopefully they say yes as we preferred this soundtrack to others we have heard.

Sound research

http://soundbible.com/902-Suspense.html
I thought it would be relevant to save the link of this sound because it could be used for the moments where my group wants the most suspense moment to be.

http://www.soundsnap.com/tags/suspense
Drum beats may be useful for the opening sequence because there is a sense of rush, which could be portrayed from the upbeat of drums being played

http://soundbible.com/2046-Incoming-Suspense.html
The first bit of this sound is famously used during thrillers.

Title sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrjqCJJOwI

The theme of our thriller opening it quite bloody, which is also part of the name of the title... Therefore in order to match these, I went onto youtube to find any tutorials which would help me with editing my title sequence in order to satisfy and fit in with the opening sequence. 

This video has really helped me with understanding how to use not only after effects, but how to make splatters go one by one, as wanted. I could use this in my title sequence, because as the title comes up, it would be quite bloody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQbT-D6plA