Finishing bits up

This week we had to fix parts in our sequence. We were told from feedback that our sound did not create enough tension, which we completely agreed with. So we improved the sound by adding eerie music when she was washing the dishes which helped create tension to the first flashback. We then decided to also add the same music where she dropped the frame to indicate that another flashback was about to happen. This worked well the children's lullaby as it really felt it was a horror film. We were worried that the sound for our credits at the beginning sounded too much like a sci-fi film, however from feedback people said they knew it was horror genre so we left it as it was.

8/02/13

Today in the lesson we edited a bit more of our whole sequence. I think the editing is going really well as so far the sequence is looking good. We also started playing around with different fonts and styles for the credits.

Fonts we looked through

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We changed the name of our film to "It's Swings and Roundabouts", we decided to change it as we thought our old name "6/6/6/" didn't flow very nicely. We think this links better with our story line as the flashbacks are to do with a park.

7/02/13

In today's lesson we were editing the park sequence. To make it more like a horror film we changed the colour and saturation to make it more grey, this helps establish that the flashbacks are different clips to the kitchen scene.

7/02/13

The other media groups watched our sequence so far and then gave feedback. This really helped as we now know what to improve, for example a criticism was that the fades were too long, so now we can make them shorter which will help engage the audience. Overall we got good feedback, and the majority liked the idea of flashbacks.

4/02/13

We uploaded our footage of the park scene today. Looking through the clips I thought the footage came at really well. We now have all our footage so can start editing the whole of the footage.

31/01/13-1/01/13

During Thursday and Friday lessons we edited the kitchen scene and we have now finished editing this. We found this process quite quick as we had already done this, so we knew exactly which bits to edit. Once we have filmed the playground scene we will start to inter cut the flashbacks into the kitchen scene.

23/1/13

Today we discussed our filming schedule for Friday. We also finished the storyboard for the park scene.

21/1/13

Today we started to edit the kitchen scene on final cut. However we found that we need to re shoot some scenes for continuity like close up of her doing the dishes (for the sequence to make sense). It is good we started editing now as we are able to see where we went wrong.

11/1/13

Today Katy and I went around sixth form asking boys and girls aged 16-17 (who are in the age range of our target audience) a questionnaire about films and our idea We asked questions like, "What is your favourite genre?" and "What about our idea stands out to you?"
By doing this we know what elements to add to our opening sequence. The feed back we got about our idea was that the idea of flashbacks sounds really interesting, therefore we need to do this really well to make it appeal to the audience.