Feedback from Audience

We held a film showcase in class in order to be able to receive feedback from our peers on how our opening sequence could be improved. The constructive criticism we gained enabled us to improve our film and the comments gathered were as follows:

• Our storyline was unclear, confusing and hard to follow.
• Our opening sequence lacked and needed to have credits and titles, a soundtrack and voiceover added.

We made use of the responses collected from our peer assessments and we decided to make the following amendments to our product:

• We removed some of the shots from our opening sequence as we felt that they confused and lengthened our storyline.
• We ensured that we created credits and titles for our film, as well as including a soundtrack and voiceover.

By organising and participating in the class opening sequence showcase, we were presented with the opportunity to be able to recognise and rectify any errors, flaws or problems, as well as earn praise, related to our product. Overall, we found this exercise beneficial to our progress and success in creating our somewhat respectable final opening sequence.

I have uploaded scanned copies of the film feedback forms completed during the carousel by my peers (click to enlarge):

Planning & Meetings: Week #6, February 6th - 10th

This was one of the final weeks of post-production, specifically editing. We were now starting to experience the stress of attempting to export and finish a project on time at AS Level and became slightly ruthless in the way that we were editing, removing large chunks of unnecessary audio and video that we no longer thought was desirable in our opening sequence in order to cut the runtime down dramatically.

We launched ourselves into cramming as much work as possible into a short amount of time, completing our credits and titles (using Apple's LiveType, logo shown to the right), as well as our sound and voiceover (using Apple's GarageBand and Audacity), leaving them to the last few sessions where we had the hardware and software available to us. In hindsight, this wasn't clever as we didn't plan our time management very efficiently, and we could have improved here slightly by doing so, although as this was our first time creating a film together as group and at A Level, this is an aspect that we will not forget and will take note of for next year.

Without the encouragement from peers and staff alike and the dedication of my fellow group members, I don't think we would have been able to submit our final opening sequence on time, which was not only a hugely frustrating experience, but an extremely rewarding process too!

Planning & Meetings: Week #5, January 30th - February 3rd

In this week, we began to move to the more advanced stages of editing, namely continuity and special effects, utilising the tools available to us on the software that we were using, Apple's Final Cut Express (logo shown to the right).

We were shown an extract, the opening sequence from a French film, titled 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct'. In the sequence, the creators of the movie utilised a technique called 'spilt screen' and we grew our inspiration for our film from this. Here, I have analysed the opening title sequence of the previously mentioned film, whilst the video of it can also be viewed below:

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)