Final Amendments and Changes

After watching our opening sequence for what we thought was the last time as a group in the role of the audience, we decided that there were various areas in which we thought that we could improve our final product so that we could say that we were proud of what we had created. Collectively, we agreed that what we had initially composed for our accompanying soundtrack to our opening sequence wasn't very well suited to what we originally had in mind for our film and that it wasn't necessary something that the audience would be expecting to hear whilst watching our work. Generally, the original piece of music that we had included within our opening sequence was rather annoying to listen to throughout, which made viewing our final product especially annoying as the track featured many different sounds, many of which had no relevance to each other, let alone the film and were, with respect, placed onto the timeline on GarageBand with no particular thought or reason behind the decision.

We didn't want to waste any time modifying our first edition of our soundtrack as we thought that it wouldn't be a very effective use of our time in which we had to complete it, so we decided that it would be best to start again from scratch. This would enable us to capture exactly what we originally had in mind for our film and would also provide us with the perfect platform to create something that we felt would demonstrate our skills in the area in question. In most cases, during the opening sequences of a film, the track doesn't change or vary to much throughout and retains the attention of the audience and therefore begins to create tension as to what may be about to happen. We thought that it would be best to achieve this effect by limiting ourselves to only a certain amount of sound clips in order to avoid the previous mistake that we had made. Further to this, as listening to the same recordings for a couple of minutes start to become a little bit tedious, different clips which were not previously used were included within the music to help to provoke suspense within the audience.

Whilst we were reviewing what we had composed for our final piece of music for our opening sequence, we noticed that there was a long period where a black screen was present in our product where the voiceover from the actor was taking place and this was something that we were not keen on at all as a group. As this would not usually be common in an opening sequence to a film, we looked back on what we had earlier analysed and research throughout the course and came to the conclusion that we could fill this space but introducing additional titles into the video that we were missing.

By amending and making these changes to our final opening sequence, I felt that this made our film more of a professional product and complete as a whole as it no longer featured any errors that we previously hadn't noticed and would've got marked down for and any annoying or irritating elements.