Screening\ Audience Feedback

We showed our thriller to an audience of 16 to 18 year olds. 

The following the question we asked to the audience:

• Did you understand the plot?

All of them said yes to this

• What did you like about it?

The fact that there are "different camera angles" and that we "didn't show the main character in just one angle" and there is a "fluidity in the shots". 

• Is there anything you didn't like?

Everyone liked the film.

• What would you change/add?

The only criticism we got was that the "diegetic sound was not frequent enough".  

• Was the music effective and how?

The music was effective and "added tension" there was "suspense from the start from the music"

Third Day of Filming

This was our last day of filming. Here we shot the second scene of your film.  Courtney did the sound as I filmed and directed the scene.

First Draft

The feedback we got was positive but we will need to make a few changes.  For instance one person said that the editing needs to be smoother. We need to add more dissolves to tie in the scenes together better.  But overall it was a good first draft.

Editing 2 & Title Sequence

Arsena and I, edited the last parts of our film. Here we added the titles and studio ident. We also added the appropriate music for our thriller including a sound effect at the end. With the titles we put them in the order film opening titles usually go by eg. the director at the end. We used the Adobe Premiere Pro software for the font and typing the names. 

Second Day of Filming

During this day we got another scene done, this was an improvisation of ideas, as our initial idea was not going to happen. We had our friend from outside our group to act as another agent. As half of the members of our group were absent. Arsena and I took on the scene ourselves, with some help from Barbara. I filmed, and held the boom mic as Arsena acted out the scene.

Making the Studio Ident

During this lesson I made a stop motion image of our initials on scrabble pieces. Together they make n,a,c and d which are the initials taken from Naomi, Arsena, Courtney and Diana. I took the photos of each scrabble piece as Diana moved them, to make it look like they were moving themselves. We ordered the scrabble parts on ebay where they can in 2 days. 

Editing Our Film

We began editing the second half of our film, by putting all the scenes together.  in one of our clips we had to delete some of the start for the shot to maintain continuity. We are planning to add the background music later on, when we have all of the filming done. Additionally, we have not yet filmed the first part of our film this will take place later.

First Day of Filming

We went out to London one day to film some shots for the second scene of our film. We planned to film at Liverpool Street Station, however because of legal circumstances we were unable to film under law. Thus, we went to a nearby spot near London Bridge to shoot.  Because of the inconvenience of the train station we had to cut half of our scene out, that was compulsory for the station.