Tuesday 2 December 2008

Audience feedback - Rough cut

With just one week remaining to complete the editing process of our production, we were given the opportunity to show a rough version of our work to our peers. After screening our opening, we found that everybody seemed to enjoy it, but there were a few changes we needed to apply such as...

-how long the shots were, such as the the spiralling staircase sequence which we cut down so that it went down from 8 seconds to 5 seconds
-what sound effects we used, as we originally had the sound of a gas station bell for the sound of the elevator opening, which we have now changed to the sound of a note played on the triangle
-where our credits would come in, as we didn't have any names of characters, people involved etc. so we decided to spend this week fitting in our credits throughout the opening and deciding when the title 'Our generation' would appear
-the final shot, where the bat falls to the ground in front of the camera, needed to be changed so that the shot appeared blurred and hazy, as the shot was POV and we needed the audience to understand that they were watching the action from character who had just taken a strong blow to the head.

Overall, the rough cut was well received and as a team, we are very proud. Now we can take our audiences comments and incorporate their opinions into our final production.

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