Group 61: Feedback

Diagetic sound is too loud, voices are a bit muffled over wind
good use of thriller conventions, leaves viewer asking questions about the opening scene.
Flicking between the man in blacks location is a good use of effects
Music was very good, built up suspense and tension well
Voice over was a good use and leaves a confused effect on us as an audience

Group 63: Feedback

First of all we all thought the film was really good and well thought out. We thought the voice over worked really well and also the effects of the man moving round the field was effective. However we suggest that a transition effect is put in between where the voice over says 'that was just the beginning'. We thought the music needed adjusting so that outdoor sounds don't interfere with the soundtrack.

Group 62: Feedback

Non diegetic sounds interfered with the start of the film, could hear the wind over everything. Could of unlinked the sound from the video- or turned it down? More effects could of been used- for example when you see the character in the field, could of used an effect that sped up the movement of everyone in the clip. however good use of 180 degree rule. good use of dialogue and creating innocence for the protagonists, really sets the scene well. alright location. Good use of credits- could of said produced by, edited by etc. nice title could have included production logo.

Soundtrack: Static Section

We also need to produce some music for our scene when Charlie (the evil character) flicks around the screen. The music need to be fast and confusing. We made the decision that radio static was a good way of doing this. We wrote our own drum track on garage band.

Screenshot of a our static scene music 

Soundtrack: Main Theme

We have been working on the main theme to our thriller. We decided that seeing as our thriller is called "Life After Death" the music should link into the idea of death. This is the reason we have a heart beat monitor in the background. We also felt that it should be creepy and mysterious, we did this through the use of slow piano.

Screenshot of our music in Garage Band.

Rough Cut

Above is our complete rough cut, which will be analyzed by other groups for improvement. As it is a rough cut there are still some things that we are aware need to be adjusted, or fine tuned. For example, we need to work on the soundtrack so that there is more variation, and so it reflects what the audience is seeing on-screen. Another adjustment would be to add in transitions/effects which we haven't been able to add in yet. 

Next week we will get a post from each group showing their feedback, and what they believe needs to be improved.

Editing: Day 4

Today we began adding our opening credits. We decided that our opening credits should follow the conventions set by the film se7en (read here) for this we used black and white versions of our credits
to make it appear as if it was flashing. We then cut parts of the credits our of the timeline to give it a flickering effect. We also move the credits slightly every couple of seconds because this follows the conventions in se7en. overall we think the credits look impressive when compared to the state of our credits in our Children's film project and we feel it is something that we have improved upon.

We then re-examined our sequence to see that can be made better about the sequence. We saw that part of our sequence would seem to stagger. To rectify this re-cut different shots to improve continuity and flow of the sequence. We feel our sequence is coming together very well and vast progress has been made, we look forward to the comments and criticisms of the other members of our class next lesson as we share our rough cut with the rest of the class.