Feedback from First Draft

We already had a rough idea of what we needed to change from our first draft before people saw it as our editing took a long time due to the masking effect we needed. This meant that we focused primarily on getting that part right that we didn't have enough time to tidy up the other parts.

When we did receive our feedback, it was more positive than I thought but they also highlighted other parts that we should change. For example, including music. We thought music would not be a particularly good idea in the beginning but after reading the feedback and testing it out, it may be something that we actually include.

Below shows some pictures of our feedback:

People tended to like the cloning effect which is good as we spent a lot of time trying to get that right. They thought the acting by Max was good and convincing. Our criticisms include the shaky shots and some of the cuts needing to be quicker which we plan to sort out. Overall the feedback was extremely useful to us as a group.


We spoke as a group and decided that these were the main things we need to improve upon:
- Title order, size and font
- Cut out wobbly shots
- Find different sound effects/music and cut out bird sound.
- Remove the title at the end of the sequence.
- Make it more interesting by removing some of the walking shots.

Blog Reflection 1

TECHNOLOGY:

One of the new online programmes  I have used the most is SlideShare for uploading my PPT. This is becoming more important for me as during the planning for our opening sequence we have to make lots of PPTs for a lot of our research, e.g. audience research. I have also used Prezi (once shown on the blog) for my Prelim task. I have tried to use it on other occasions to and am currently making one for my Marketing Research, however I do find is slightly confusing and I am definitely more comfortable using PowerPoint. I am planning to try more technologies in the future such as E-Maze. Recently I have been experimenting with Premiere a lot for titles for our film so have been looking at the different fonts available and sizes that would work, etc. During my Juno edit, Sam and I used a cartoon-like effect which we found on our own which is quite cool. Also, I found out how to put the whole sequence in black and white which was useful for my Prelim task. We are also going to use a cloning effect that Max will teach us to do which we will use in our final task.

MARK OUT OF 20:

I think I would maybe get 15/16 out of 20 at the moment. I think I need to go into more detail with certain things and extend my analysis, however it is all organised and I have good time management. All the tasks are completed and the majority are very detailed.

PARTS WHERE I COULD BE MORE THOROUGH OR LESS COMPLACENT?

I could be more thorough in my analysis of my titles research. I also could go into more depth in my representations.

IS IT FUN TO LOOK THROUGH?

I think it is fun to look through as there are many pictures and PPTs instead of just text. I have also put it with a white font which I think is more interesting than just a white background and black text. I change the style of my blog quite regularly to make it more interesting. I do need to add some more pictures to break up the text.

IS THE LEARNING JOURNEY EVIDENT?
I would say that it is very evident as looking at my first ever editing task to looking at my prelim task, a lot has improved. Although my prelim was not perfect, since then I have gradually become more skillful with programmes such as Premiere. I have picked up on all the theories and types of institutions. Hopefully my learning journey will become even more evident after finishing my final opening sequence.

TARGETS:
I think I need to link my film opening idea to the conventions of the genre more. Also I need to improve my knowledge of all the different theories and finally make my blog perhaps a little more visual. 

Feedback from Film Pitch

Many of the comments we received were positive ones and are shown below:

Many people commented on our good editing ideas which is something that we thought would be popular and lots of people also said that we were united in our ideas about the film which is good as everyone needs to be on board and like the idea in order for it to be successful.
Some however said that the genre was a bit confusing which we, as a group, have taken into serious consideration as this is not a problem that we want to keep. From presenting our idea to the class we learnt a lot that people didn't comment on, for example, that we needed to take into consideration the target audience more and be more specific, not just saying 'adults' so this is something we discussed and sorted out. We also came to the conclusion that we needed to cut out some of the scenes we wanted to film as it could make us rush and therefore not produce a high-quality opening sequence. We decided to focus on just two locations instead of three, reducing the dialogue and focusing more on the effects and titles.