Evaluation

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Final Editing

After getting our feedback, we went back and tried to change some little things in our opening to make them that little bit better. The first problem was my voice in the dialogue, we cleverly thought chloes pitch in her voice would suit our genre much better, so straight away i got her to re-record over my speech. This worked very well. The next cristism we got was that some parts of our opening were 'over edited' we decided to tone tone the editing and make it look more natural, we then showed it to a few peers, and the response was much better. We connected all of our digetic and non-digetic sounds to our opening, and together it looks so effective, and very professional. We then worked on making the credits look more realistic in a film, and also evenly set them out, as two names came up quicker and more rapidly than the other two. But overall we are all very proud of our progress as a group, and have had a lot of fun filming an editing this opening.

Feedback from our audience

The final question on the feedback sheet, which would generally help us to improve our opening was;
Did you notice any serious issues such as continuity errors, strange edits - Did anything not make sense to you?
"Story line was a bit confusing but knew roughly what was going on, sharpen the shots so they are closer together"

• "Storyline was a quite confusing but i knew roughly what was going on. Maybe sharpen some of the shots a bit?."
• "Sound needs a bit of work."
• "Didn't get the bit with the train."
• "Some bits are too dark, can't see as well."
• "Camera shots are slightly jumpy."

With this helpful critisism, as a group we can now go away and thouroughly look over these points and tweek our opening sequence were we need to, this will make it that much more effective for the audience.

Feedback from our audience

The next question that was asked was;
Who do you think the target audience is?

• "16+"
• "Mainstream"
• "People who like horror"
• "15+"
• "18, Indie Horror"

We was happy with these answers, as this is the actual target audience we was aiming for.

Feedback from our audience

As an extra bit of help, and to gain advice from our peers, after filming and editing, we decided to do a film showcase. This was so we could all show our films to an audience and get feedback and helpful critism so we could further improve our work. We gave out 'Feedback Sheets' to several people in the room and asked them to fill them out whilst watching our opening.
The first question that was asked was;
What was especially good about the film?

• "Really good editing- (Red lipstick with black and white) shot and good camera work and use of sound."
• "The camera work was really good."
• "Good use of colour."
• "Lighting was very good."
• "Never see the face till the end."
• "Good shots of the knife."
• "Shots of make-up and nail varnish at the start were really good."
• "Lighting suits the genre"
• "Good acting."

These points gave us a general idea that we was on the right tracks, and that the reaction was fairly positive.