Feedback & Improvement

On Thursday 31st March, Georgia and myself were showcasing our opening sequence which was almost a final copy was shown to our class. Before showcasing the opening sequence we had given out feedback sheets to each student which had been created by our teacher. After the opening sequence had been seen by all the pupils, there was now a chance for pupils to ask questions such as:
Why is their so many characters featuring?
Why did the opening sequence focused on the knives twice?
Reason for a little baby?
Where is the main character?
Etc
These were the questions we were asked by my other pupils in the class, in which I was able to answer them which helped their overall understanding of the opening sequence.
We were given back the feedback sheets which had been filled out by other pupils, to help us improve our opening sequence and therefore I am currently in progress of scanning these feedback sheets to my mac to upload onto my blog. Overall I felt that the feedback sheets were very useful as this enabled Georgia and myself the chance to improve our opening sequence one more time before it will be completed and handed in for the deadline on Thursday 7th April.

Preliminary Task

Creating Sound Using GarageBand

GarageBand was a new programme which I had never used although I have a Mac, We began to play around with this programme and were discovering new ways we can improve our sounds we were adding as this could be done by adding different sounds on different layers to help blend in overall which I believe was effective.

Below I have added shots of us using GarageBand.

Individual Response To The Idea

My overall response to the idea was that it would very good and effective if we can find the right effects and transitions whilst editing which would make our opening sequence much better. After watching our opening sequence after the sound was added, At one point I felt like I was unable to recognise our opening sequence and Overall I was delighted with the idea.

Evaluation Task

After completing all tasks which have been set, My final task is to evaluate my media product. After deciding different ways to evaluate my product, I have now come to the decision where I have decided to evaluate my product using Microsoft PowerPoint as this would enable me to show examples e.g. video clips from our sequence as well as images from other films e.g. Se7en. The reason for this choice was that I would still be able to add sound which would allow me to do a voiceover on each slide an also allow me to evaluate my media product.

Inspiration About The Opening

To get an inspiration on our new opening sequence we decided to look at a variety of different horror opening sequences to help us get ideas. After looking at 6-7 different opening sequences we discovered that titles were broken up e.g. shown after bits of footage, as well as discovering most of the opening sequences we were looking at were all dull which was quite obvious as this is an effect used in horror films. After viewing different horror opening sequences we believed that the film Se7en was similar to our ideas although the one thing we did do the same was the use of fonts which I believe this worked for both films "Sev7en" and our opening sequence "Last Blood" was due to the genre as well as the fact that both films were based on murders, an I personally believe the font and transitions worked excellently with the dull background which needed to be used.
Our aim was to make our target audience engrossed into our opening sequence by dragging them straight into although we wanted to make it scary as we believed that this could be accomplished by using eerie sounds. 

Editing

Once the footage was fully uploaded onto IMovie, Georgia and myself then began to play around with the programme which was completely different to Final Cut Express which were currently using on our previous idea. After playing around with different transitions we discovered that there were not as many effects etc on IMovie compared to Final Cut although due to the time we had remaining we decided to continue editing.