I received this feedback after I uploaded my first few posts to my blog, as my teacher seemed my target grade to be an ‘A/B’, I worked really hard to meet the target which she had set for me by a certain deadline date.
After receiving my second feedback, my teacher had put several points in which I accidently did wrong, therefore in that lesson I corrected all my mistakes to make my blog to the standard it should’ve been in.
After creating our first version of our film, we decided to do an audience testing in which we showed a group of pupils in my class the video on a big screen, we then asked for feedback at the end and these are all the comments that we received.
- ‘Good intense soundtrack.'
- ‘Some of the shots are very blurry and shaky.’
- ‘You should think about including a shot of Leanne following Toni to make sure the storyline is clear.’
- ‘Wicked!’
- ‘Maybe the shots of Toni being happy should be in colour?’
- The soundtrack should drop in time with Leanne when she’s going crazy.’
- ‘Your titles need to appear slower so that they are readable.’
- ‘Very good! But you need to make the storyline more obvious.’
After receiving positive and negative comment of our rough cut, we decided to take on some on the points that were made as we wanted our film to be the most effective towards our target audience and to look even more professional. We then decided to play around with some of the shots and effects which we thought would engage the audience further into the film.
To make the storyline more obvious, we took on board one of the point made and included a shot of Leanne following Toni home, which was an advantage for us as it did make the storyline look more obvious whilst still convincing. The effect of this shot is to show the audience how oblivious Toni can be to not see what is happening around her, whilst portray Leanne’s obsession to get driven deeper.
Another change we made was changing the colour of the climax shot in the toilet to a red tint. We thought changing the colour will make the setting more daunting and effective as it highlights the pictures and most of all Leanne. Another advantage to using the red tint was that red is a key connotation which has been repeated throughout the majority of the opening sequence as the colour represents passion, danger, love which are the main themes that we are trying to portray in our film.
To make our titles last longer on the screen, we tried many attempts to pull back the timing on the effects that were on the text, which were ‘Word flash and Evaporate’. We decided to keep these effects on the text as it represented our genre in many ways and looked very professional to use. In the end, we found out how to pull back the time, for the text to appear long enough to read. Another addition to our titles was we included Polaroid’s on every title apart from our main title which was at the end. We decided to apply the Polaroid’s in with the titles because it portrayed there relationship through the pictures, also it reminded the audience whilst allowing them to identify who the main protagonists are in film are.
To make the opening sequence engage the audience furthermore into wanting to watch the rest of the film, we agreed on incorporating a voiceover at the climax of the opening sequence to help pull the plot together before the film began. The voiceover also helped to establish the feelings Leanne was feeling and reveal some of the actions that could happen later on in the film.
As a group, we all decided to keep the blurriness of some of the shots as it gave effect to each shot, the blurriness at each shot in the climax helps to establish the confusion in Leanne’s behaviour and feeling towards Toni. The disorientation of some of the shots throughout the sequence was purposely done as it demonstrates the complicated, dangerous feel to the storyline; it also goes well with the genre as it is tense nearly throughout the entire film.
Finally, to make the soundtrack even more effective we pulled back and cropped some of the soundtrack so that it would be in sync with the events happening on the footage, so that the audience would feel more of the impact of what was happening on the screen.
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