Audience Feedback

On Tuesday 22nd March 2011, all students presented their final edits of their title sequence to the class and received feedback based on the criteria.  

Level 1 - Minimal

Level 2 -Basic

Level 3 - Proficient and Creative 

Level 4 - Excellent and Creative 

Criteria 

Holding a shot steady where appropriate  - Level 4

Framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate - Level 4

Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate - Level 4

Shooting material appropriate to the task set - Level 4

Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting - Level 4

Editing so that meaning is apparent to viewer - Level 4

Using varied shot transitions ans other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set - Level 4

Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set - Level 3

Using titles appropriately - Level 3

What did you do well?

1. The black and white effect added to the flashback scenes was done very well.  Although it was a black and white effect, you could still see the shot clearly and see what is going on with the characters of Zeba and Rohan.

2. There was a range of shots used, the close-ups used conveyed the horror/thriller genre.

3. It all flowed, there were not any jump-cuts except for maybe one or two.

4. Good use of transitions (fades)

Target:

1. The tittles were slightly unclear to see in some areas as they blended with the background.  

2. There was too much of the story given away in the title sequence.  It is suppose to create enigmas, it does however it answers most of them, which is not suppose to happen.  

3. The music at the beginning conveys a slight different genre to the actual horror/thriller genre.  

Personal Opinion

I was pretty pleased with my final edit taking into consideration I had the least time to edit due to filming errors.  I was pleased with the music and thought the beginning music worked well as well, as I was trying to portray that everything is normal between both friends, which conveys that Zeba's character is quite gullible and naive as she cannot see that her best friend Hannah wants to kill her because of jealousy.  I was pleased with the way the whole title sequence flowed and did not jump from one shot to the next, it told a clear story.  I realised that the titles were not so great, however due to a lack of time I had to stay with the basic font and colour.  I thought that the colour white would stand out when the title appeared on the shots. This was true however in some shots the titles blended into the background, which will lead me to lose marks.  Overall I was pretty pleased with my final edit and how the music suited the genre well, and how it all told a clear story.  This was also seen by my peers as they did give me Level 4 for most of the points of the criteria which was the highest level you could achieve, so I was pleased with my outcome.

Filming Day

We had to film flashbacks that Hannah will have in our title sequence in school.  So when all film crew members had a free in their timetable, we met up in school and shot scenes of Zeba and Rohan together.  These shots would be shown when Hannah is sharpening the eyeliner pencil and has thoughts of jealousy of Rohan and Zeba together at school.  This filming took place on Wednesday 16th February 2011.

Our original date for filming the whole title sequence was Monday 21st February 2011 from 1:00pm to 5:30pm.  However not all film crew members were able to make it, so we had to have another day when everyone was available for filming.  We changed the date to Thursday 24th February 2011 from 1:00pm to 5:30pm.  We arrived at our filming location which was in Dagenham at 12:45pm.  We set up the bedroom which we were going to film in and made sure we had all our props ready (eyeliner pencil, sharpener, picture of Zeba, iPod etc.)  By the time we had everything set up it was 1:15pm.  We then started to shoot our title sequence.  We approximately finished filming at 5:00pm, which was earlier than what we predicted.  

When we returned back to school on Monday, we began our individual edits using the software "Final Cut Pro".  It was a straight forward software to use as we had previously used this for our Preliminary task.  However myself and Zeba were not pleased at all with the shots that our camera man Oscar filmed.  He had cut off our heads which showed bad composition.  In another shot where Hannah was crossing out Zeba's photograph, in the mirror we could see the reflection of our camera man sitting on the bed! who was suppose to be behind the camera.  In the second shot of Zeba turning the door handle, the lighting was absolutely terrible, it was completely dark, so Zeba's hand was difficult to see.  These problems were not noted out by our camera man on the filming day.  Me and Zeba were not happy with these shots at all however Oscar and Rohan did not mind.   

Me and Zeba wanted to shoot the scenes that went bad again.  This was becoming very difficult for us as we would have to ask for permission from our friend whose house we were using to film in.  This was a big issue for us as the whole final edit was due at the end of the week.  However me and Zeba decided to take a risk and film the whole title sequence again from the beginning.  This would be MUCH easier as we can film it correctly, making it easier to edit, and so it will flow more smoothly, and it would have been difficult to match the hair, make-up and costume to match the previous shots.  Rohan and Oscar were not interested in filming the shots again, so me and Zeba went back to the same location in Dagenham and filmed the title sequence from the beginning again, without the help of Rohan and Oscar.  We were really pleased with the results and took everything that went wrong from Oscar's filming into account.  We felt the composition was great, the shots were continuous and the lighting was perfect.  We did take some extra shots which did not match the storyboard.  We did this as we thought it would make our title sequence look more effective as there would be a wider variety of shots used and explored.

When we returned to school on Tuesday 8th March 2011, we transferred all our new shots to the computer to begin our editting.  As we didnt have much time to edit, we had to try and get everything done quickly as the deadline was Friday 11th March 2011, so we were pretty nervous if we would get it editted in time to meet the deadline.  We used a final hour on the day of the deadline (Friday) to get our final bits completed.  We were lucky enough to complete our final edits to desire.  However if I was to complete this project again I would make sure all shots were filmed properly so that we could have more time to spend on editting. Because i feel like i didnt have enough time to take into consideration what kind of font I would like to use for the titles and the colours.  Due to timing I stuck to the basic font and colour.